Noticing Sentences

Freedom passage regarding crossing into the north- p48-49 "There are two things I've got a right to, and these are death or liberty. One of the other, I mean to have." p69 "I can't trust Uncle Sam with my people any longer." p72 "The Fourth of July is yours, not mine!" Douglass boomed, raising his fist into the air. For how could even one black person of the millions of black people in the United States celebrate Independence Day when not one black person was truly free? p78 discussion of why some people believed slavery was acceptable -79 capture of a black man in the North- p82 "You see," the general explained, "there will still be hundreds of slaves who won't even know they're free. The Rebels certainly won't let them know about the new law. Part of your job will be letting them know they're free." p97 Gender "Now look here. I done worked as hard as any man for twenty-four years. I made ...

Struggle What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment." p65 Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. p354 Prejudice  "How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." p74 Government/ Control "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!" p117 We stand for the anthem. I have to raise my head out of the required respect..." p134 "No, when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep...

Gender How typical of this Court for everyone else to act mad and then, when I've behaved in a perfectly reasonable manner, compel me to feel as if I were the mad one. p13 Villains He hadn't been a person who cackled and leered and rubbed his hands together villainously like the storyteller said. He'd been simpler than that. He'd spoken simply, reacted simply, and performed acts of violence with a simple, expressionless precision. He'd calmly done whatever he'd needed to do to make things the way he wanted them. p30 Love it The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know. I want to know everything. p58 "I always trusted you, Lady Queen," said Teddy, "even before I knew who you were. You're a person of generosity and feeling. It warms my heart to know that such a person is our queen." p287 Giddon took her small, clenched fist in his hand, raised it to his mouth, and kissed it. And Bitterblue was lit up...

Throwing Shade Cal warned me against the threat of civil war a long time ago, before his father died, before he was left with nothing but a tempestuous lightning girl. Rebellion on both sides , he said. But standing here, leashed before Maven's court and his Silver kingdom, I see no division. Even though I showed them, told them of Maven's prison, of their loved ones taken away, of their trust betrayed by a king and his mother-- I am still the enemy here. It makes me want to scream, but I know better. Maven's voice will always be louder than mine. p 3 King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard It's amazing how the meaning of things can change when we read them at different times. I read this first when it came out, then again in early May, and looking through my quotes now (late May) as children are being taken from their families, refugees are forced to wear armbands, the people who are drawing attention to the atrocities are being treated as the enemy. Sad, true, and sa...