"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johntown."

Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

"I don't judge you for your spoonless behavior."

Next read: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

"I only have so much heart to cut up and send out to these individual stories."

Next read: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)

"It's good we're reading this as adults and we're not two children with a mic."

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"I did not review the Queen with my adult eyes."

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“Relish in the depressive child realm with me.”

Next read: The BFG (Roald Dahl)

"You shouted in your heart, and that's what matters."

Next read: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)

"Unlegliness is close to godliness."

Next read: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)

"I would rather we not exist if it meant that everything here could thrive the way it did."

Next read: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)

"I'm not a fucking octopus, Will!"

Next read: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)