Innocent people Quote by A.S. King

“I wondered about the kids who everyone had decided were bad. The lost ones, the problems. What became of them when they were adults?…

— Avery Sawyer

“The truth was that I didn’t know how I felt about my long-lost baby sister being in Ashland, much less the fact that she…

— Jennifer Estep

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“What if they didn’t even want my help? From pit latrines to condoms, we were trying to assist countless people in every aspect of…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“It never ceased to astound me the people who found themselves on the streets, homeless, abused. A fucked up life was not discriminatory. Young,…

— Kirsty Dallas

“What I didn’t understand at the time was that the other kids genuinely had no clue what a white person was. Black kids in…

— Trevor Noah

“Maybe they were just as mean on the inside, but they were scared of getting in trouble. Or maybe they were just as mean…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Poor things were laden down and they were only youngsters. When I went to school at their age we had a couple of books…

— Al K. Line

“Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to…

— Morgan Carroll

“When I looked around the neighborhood, I found out that kids wasn’t the only crooks. We was surrounded by crooks, and plenty of ’em…

— Martin Gosch

“Yet here they were, carrying groceries, holding children’s hands, turning their collars up against the wind. As if their moments of truth—the decisions by…

— Jessica Shattuck

“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took…

— Conor Grennan