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“Maybe some people are meant to be in the same story.”

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Jandy Nelson is an American writer known for her young adult literature, which often delves into the emotional and identity struggles of adolescence, resonating with readers across generations. more

“So at my old school,” he said. “There was this kid on the baseball team. People thought, I don’t know. They saw that he went to some website or something.” ... “They made it impossible for him to play. Every day, the found another way to mess with him. Then one Friday after school, they locked him in the storage closet.” He winced, as if remembering and I knew. I knew then. “All night long and the whole next day. A tiny, dark, disgusting airless space. His parents thought he was at the away game and someone told the coaches he was sick, so no one even looked for him. No one knew he was trapped in there.” His chest was heaving and I was remembering how he told me he didn’t used to have claustrophobia and now he did. “He was really good too, probably the best player on the team or could have been. And he didn’t even do anything. The guy just went to these sites and someone saw. Do you get it? Do you get what it would mean for me? The assistant captain? I want to be captain next year so maybe I can graduate early. No scholarship. No nothing. These guys aren’t” - he made finger quotes - “evolved. They’re not from Northern California. They don’t do all-day sits or draw pictures.” The dagger went straight in. “It’s brutal in a locker room.”

Homophobia I Ll Give You The Sun Brian Connelly Noah Sweetwine

Book:I'll Give You the Sun

Source: I'll Give You the Sun

“If she were drowning, I'd hold her head under”

Hatred Anger Drown I Ll Give You The Sun

Author:Jandy Nelson

“Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.”

Ideas Books Censorship Banned Books Intellectual Freedom Freedom To Read Banned Books Week

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.”

Library Censorship Banned Books Censors Banned Books Week Judy Blume

Author:Judy Blume

“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us -- that unrestricted access to books allows us to be challenged and changed? To learn new things and to critically think about those things and not be afraid of them? To be better than we were before we read them?”

Banned Books Banned Books Week Book Ban Banning Books Suggested Reading

Book:Suggested Reading

Source: Suggested Reading

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”

Classics Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 2 5 Star Banned Books Week

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice. And that’s how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you.”

Steal

Author:Austin Kleon

“You know the police love to steal out of peoples wallets!”

Love Law Police Enforcement Theft Know Sheriff Wallets Steal Peoples

Author:Steven Magee

“What was stolen by the city, nature restores.”

Urban Stolen Countryside City Life Country Life Steal Urban Life Rural Life Rural Villages

Book:Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts

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