“ One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter. Richard Flanagan
“ Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out and… Aysha Taryam
“ The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water. Richard Flanagan
“ …one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of Italy and the boats that came up… Alexander McCall Smith
“ But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly. Ruta Sepetys
