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Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2) QUOTES

Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2) QUOTES

1 " Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

2 " ...we know the curse that has been laid upon us--not the curse of bondage, but rather the curse of neglect. This country does not see, nor seek to remedy, the suffering of the Negro, and we are taxed to bear the wrath of white inadequacy. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

3 " I smile tightly, but say nothing. He is trying to protect me, in the simple way men are always trying to protect women: by stealing away their freedom. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

4 " You're a heartbreaker, Katherine Devereaux."

"That has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them," I say, blowing on my coffee before sipping it. There's chicory in the brew and I drink it appreciatively while we walk. "I have already had to tell more than one of them that I am not interested in courtship, thinking about courtship, hearing about courtship, or talking about the possibility of courtship. What is it with men thinking every woman they meet must be half in love with them? "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

5 " This world may hate the Negro, but that is who I am. I do not care about the story my skin tells. I am a colored woman, and I will not let them make me hate myself. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

6 " He is trying to protect me, in the simple way men are always trying to protect women: by stealing away their freedom. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

7 " The only goal of this world is to stay in it as long as possible. And no one gets to judge how a body does that, especially when the alternative is being eaten. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

8 " I cannot help but remember the way she had never hesitated to call out some random bit of unfairness or chicanery. (As long as it was not her own, of course.) "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

9 " I’m afraid that the past few years have taken quite the toll on the colored population here. Most folks came here to flee slavery, but the work they found wasn’t much better. When the dead rose there was an opportunity to work the patrols, but that was before the Chinese took over most of those jobs. Now the Chinese do all the menial work, leaving no real way for the Negro to thrive. It ain’t like white folks are hiring us to do anything more than clean their houses. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

10 " Some of them Indians kept slaves the same as everyone else,” Jackson says, his words clipped. “Ain’t a single body in this entire cursed country that didn’t have a hand in trying to own the African. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

11 " the more time I spend with the woman that birthed me the more I realize that my memory ain’t nothing like the reality. I start to remember all the small hurts inflicted by my mother, all the bad times that greatly outnumbered the good. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

12 " Questioning the truth of things doesn’t change them. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

13 " Sometimes, when the world doesn’t make sense, it’s easier to pretend like there are other forces at work. But there ain’t. That’s just life. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

14 " All the money in the world can not make a colored person worthy to some folks. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

15 " And even the smallest feeling of security is a comfort in a brutal, unforgiving world. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

16 " The mayor talks like we are old friends, and I lean back on my bunk, because I learned long ago that you should never trust a man who treats you like a longtime friend. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

17 " Your father is sentencing this whole town to death,” I mutter. “There ain’t any kind of inoculation against fear and false confidence. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

18 " There are a few things I’m good at, but none of them are domestic chores. I’m good at putting down the dead. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

19 " You help as much as you can—but no more. You don’t think those founding fathers wrote all those pretty words about independence just to help the poor, do you? The books are right there in the library, Jane. They did it because they didn’t want to pay taxes, to have some king tell them the price of tea. And for that, they went to war, and hundreds of people died. If that ain’t capitalism, I don’t know what is. "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

20 " How can we make the world a better place if we are always at odds with one another for every single kind of reason under the sun? "

― Justina Ireland , Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)