“Don’t worry too much about your father, lad. People change. My grandmother used to think humans were sort of hairless bears. She doesn’t anymore.”
“What changed her mind?”
“I reckon it was the dying that did it.”
Source: The Truth
“Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“For what is she, but a spare daughter?”
Source: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
“He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.”
Source: ハイキュー!! 24 [Haikyū!! 24]
“Even though she was an infant, he saw her spit and vinegar, that spirit that would soon be lighting a fire under them all. His ma said he took a shine to her right away--- and that settled it.
Shine.”
Source: The Moonshine Women
“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers”
“...he couldn’t help wondering how it had felt: refugees turning up from concentration camps, from a broken Europe, to find this bleak estate; its squat huts their new homes. There’d been watch towers and barbed wire fences. It can’t have looked like freedom. But freedom was measured, he supposed, by what you were leaving behind.”
Source: Joe Country
“The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground”
Source: The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
“Humanitarianism may be appropriate during an emergency phase but beyond that it is counter-productive.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System