“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”
“It’s an age old story … Boy meets girl. Boy asks girl to touch him inappropriately. Girl dazzles boy with her impressive knowledge and proper use of profanity.”
“Ah, yes" he says, "The old story: 'Boy eats girl.”
“Why do boys kiss girls? Because they like them. Do girls kiss boys because they like them too? …Usually…”
“Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.”