“For so many Americans, it is only in recent years that the climate has begun to be understood as a hostile force. To them, I say: Welcome," writes Kyle Paoletta in the opening pages of his book, American Oasis.
“It’s always dangerous to give people a way to tell themselves stories about you before they get to know you. Always.” He patted my shoulder. “So mind your mother. She’s not wrong.”
“There’s a world underneath the world. You can’t ask and ask and ask to see it. Otherwise, these glimpses of it, they turn bad.” ― Téa Obreht, The Morningside
“Another fascist prick here in the States, riding the migrant crisis to power? Everyone knew these things would happen, smart people had been predicting them for years, and yet the world—or at least the assholes running it—seemed uninterested in stopping them.” ― Eric Puchner, Dream State