It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.