Rift Quotes

“The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget that--if we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment--we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider.”

“The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget that--if we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment--we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider.”

“I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.”

“She had gone through the veil and returned to Earth. But the veil only opens one way.”

“She will have brown eyes that say everything I ever need to know without her having to speak. She will be beyond extraordinary. She is beyond extraordinary. I will give her everything she ever wanted. She will never have to be afraid or alone. She will always have me. I will never let anything happen to her.”

“You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be.”

“We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.”

“There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core”

“I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift”

“There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.”

“I didn't say I can change the whole world with all it entirety alone. But I can strike on a lot of things and cause a rift, and bring so many things together.”