The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.