“The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.” PainFearFamilyGrowing UpChildhood Book:Girl at War Source: Girl at War
“At Jefferson High, even a small misstep could get you bullied for years. As far as she could tell they were still teasing some kid for a lethal fart he'd let fly back in sixth-grade gym class, so whatever you imagine a deaf-voiced cyborg girl caught, it was worse. The things that happened to girls always were.” HumorHigh SchoolSexismBullyingTeasingFarts Book:True Biz Source: True Biz
“Charlie was far from the she'd seen. She had language... all those years of energy poured into achieving the aesthetic of being educated rather than actually having learned anything.” Special NeedsSpecial Education Book:True Biz Source: True Biz
“I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.” WarHateConflictGuiltInnocence Book:Girl at War Source: Girl at War
“She would learn as much as she could and do whatever she could to dismantle all that she knew to be broken, brick by brick, by. hand if she had to. She would keep the bricks, though. She would use them to build something new.” Activism Book:True Biz Source: True Biz