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“Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically different from those around you, but different in your very soul...[then] I was a different kind of alone. I was alone and ashamed of myself...it was no one's fault but mine.” Loneliness Book:Some Girls: My Life in a Harem Source: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
“Less dead" homicide victims, a term credited to criminologist Steven Egger, have historically been not as thoroughly investigated as their wealthier, whiter, and perhaps more sober counterparts. Pretty white college students are the most dead. Black transgender hookers with addiction issues are the least dead.” RelationshipsJusticeCrimeMen And WomenPoliceInjusticeTrue CrimeBeing Black Book:Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Source: Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
“Sam and I talked that first day about our childhoods, about our first loves, about his family tree, which includes (it really does) both Malcolm X and Little Richard.” RelationshipsJusticeCrimeMen And WomenPoliceInjusticeTrue CrimeBeing Black Book:Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Source: Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
“New York looked like someone put Magic Grow on Miami, strung the whole thing with Christmas lights, then ground about a billion pounds of soot into it.” RelationshipsJusticeCrimeMen And WomenPoliceInjusticeTrue CrimeBeing Black Book:Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Source: Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
“I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.” KnowsHardSeemsFacesArmsSellsPerformingOver YouSwimmingAvalanches Book:Some Girls: My Life in a Harem Source: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
“Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.” LastsLife IsConstantSeriesMessCleaningCleaning Up Book:Pretty: A Novel Source: Pretty: A Novel
“I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.” KnowsLooksNextWaitingProvenFaithlessProven Wrong Book:Pretty: A Novel Source: Pretty: A Novel
“I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.” FactsFeelingsHappensFacesRoomsPartyHappenedInevitable Author:Jillian Lauren
“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.” WarSoulGirlHarderCrueltyShootingBleeding Book:Some Girls: My Life in a Harem Source: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem