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.

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

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.