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.

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.

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.

I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.