Moonkiszt

“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need to quell and subdue white guilt and pain? Was it just too much to watch? Did it offend Christian sensibilities to live in a society that allowed that practice? I knew that whatever the cause of their war, freeing slaves was an incidental premise and would be an incidental result.”
― Percival Everett, James

“There was a mama raccoon that lived in the tree. She had taken to walking past me nonchalantly in the darkness. Tonight she stayed in the tree, high above me, listening to the dogs. We were both animals and we didn’t know which of us was the prey. We accepted that we both were.”
― Percival Everett, James

“For all the scandalous women Who blazed the trails before us And refused to take no for an answer. I have been compelled to see orphans robbed, starved, and burned for money. I decided long ago that…no citizen…cared whether or not an orphan is robbed or starved or killed—because his dead claim is easier to handle than if he were alive. —Kate Barnard,
Oklahoma state commissioner of charities and corrections, 1907–1915.”
― Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

“Betsy felt happy, delicious, emptied of trouble.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill