“You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I don't believe in forgiveness. I think if you hurt someone, it becomes part of you both. Each of you just has to live with it and the person you hurt gets to decide if they want to give you the chance to do it again. If they do and you're a good person, you won't make the same mistakes. Just whole new ones.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Because teenage girls don't pray to God, they pray to each other. They clasp their hands over a keyboard and then they let it all out, a (stupid) girl's heart tucked into another girl's heart.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I wish I didn’t have a body, sometimes.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“But just because something starts out sweet doesn’t mean it won’t push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what’s coming?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“There’s a miracle there, but there’s something so awful about it too, bringing someone into all this now, this world where a girl can’t even trust a drink that passes her lips. I can’t figure out the kind of heart it takes to do something like that.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s kind of like stumbling upon the scene of an accident. Once you’ve looked, you’re part of it. Especially if you walk away.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“He was planning to rape me -"
"Why would he ever -"
"Because he knew he'd get away with it.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s something my body does without checking with my head first, like the obligation to be nice to him is greater than myself.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Cell phones don’t run as fast as the mouths in this town.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there's a space between us, enough to paralyze me with all of the things I could do to her next. I could raise my hand and hit her in the face or bring my knee into her stomach, take a fistful of her hair and rip it out of her skull. You don't get to do this when you're a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it at once.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“He’s the boy who stopped and I’m the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth—how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“There’s a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I don’t know why it’s the girls who always seem to have to take on that kind of burden.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“They cry for her and twist their hands in a way they never would for me. This is what happens when a girl befalls a fate no one thinks she deserves.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It can’t be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you’re around them. That’s probably one of the best reasons you could have.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I make sure to tell her I love her because more and more, I’m thinking about the last things I say before I leave.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I pull my sheet up over my head and cover my body. Her body. I wish I didn’t have a body.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I glance at her and she looks soft, not vicious, but a lot of people in this town are a soft kind of vicious.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“And it's not that she tells him it didn't happen, it's that by the time he asks, she no longer has a language of her own. But that's enough. It always is.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Penny Young is the most perfect girl you know and those kinds of girls, they’re put on this earth to break you. Peel back her skin and you can see her poison. Peel back mine, you can still see traces of where her poison’s been.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn’t think about daughters she doesn’t have.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I want to burn a moment of helplessness into him so he can know a fraction of what I felt, what I feel, what’s followed me every moment since, so I You cover cover his her mouth mouth.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I press my hands against my face and split myself in two. Push away the side that’s the truth because that’s the side that wants to be angry at him for how wrong he is because of all the things he doesn’t know. I focus on the side I’ve shown to him. There’s so much missing, but it’s better that it’s missing. And as long as it’s missing, that makes everything he’s saying to me now—right.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“The silence stretches between us. Words aren’t so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
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“The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.” “What’s that, O’Brien?” replied I … “Why, Peter,” rejoined he, “it’s the stuff they feed fools on.” —P. Simple, Marryat,”
― Michael Shermer, quote from Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“If you’re right, they aren’t the deceased,” Murphy said. “They’re the victims. Big difference. Which is it?” “Wish I could say,” I said. “But the only evidence that could prove it one way or another is leaking out onto the floor. If we get a survivor, maybe I could take a peek and see, but barring that, we’re stuck with legwork.” Murphy sighed and looked down. “Two suicide pacts could—technically—be a coincidence. Three of them, no way it’s natural. This feels more like something’s MO. Could it be another one of those Skavis vampires?” “They gun for loners,” I said, shaking my head. “These”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“His argument is that the system’s much lauded economic, political, and social freedoms, formerly a source of social progress, lose their progressive function and become subtle instruments of domination which serve to keep individuals in bondage to the system that they strengthen and perpetuate. For example, economic freedom to sell one’s labor power in order to compete on the labor market submits the individual to the slavery of an irrational economic system; political freedom to vote for generally indistinguishable representatives of the same system is but a delusive ratification of a nondemocratic political system; intellectual freedom of expression is ineffectual when the media either co-opt and defuse, or distort and suppress, oppositional ideas, and when the image-makers shape public opinion so that it is hostile or immune to oppositional thought and action. Marcuse”
― Herbert Marcuse, quote from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“They did not ask to be accepted but declared themselves the Americans that perhaps few others recognized but that they had always been deep within their hearts. NOTES ON METHODOLOGY I began this work because of what I saw as incomplete perceptions, outside of scholarly circles, of what the Great Migration was and how and why it happened, particularly through the eyes of those who experienced it. Because it was so unwieldy and lasted for so long, the movement did not appear to rise to the level of public consciousness that, by any measure, it seemed to deserve. The first question, in my view, had to do with its time frame: what was it, and when precisely did it occur? The Great Migration is often described as a jobs-driven, World War I movement, despite decades of demographic evidence and real-world indicators that it not only continued well into the 1960s but gathered steam with each decade, not ending until the social, political, and economic reasons for the Migration began truly to be addressed in the South in the dragged-out, belated response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The second question had to do with where it occurred. The migration from Mississippi to Chicago has been the subject of the most research through the years and has dominated discussion of the phenomenon, in part because of the sheer size of the black influx there and because of the great scholarly interest taken in it by a cadre of social scientists working in Chicago at the start of the Migration. However, from my years as a national correspondent at The New York Times and my early”
― Isabel Wilkerson, quote from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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