Quotes About Community

Don't go to Joyce City, Billie, she said. You can get what we need down Hardly's store.

Fair warning, as it turned out—kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.

Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.

Too bad evil people sometimes live in peaceful towns

Aliit ori'shya tal'din. Family is more than bloodline. —Mandalorian proverb

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully.

think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

Every place always has somebody who doesn't fit in. That's what makes them fit in.

Granted Laura spent most of her time on Nextdoor but that was because people who lived year-round in beach towns were either busybodies, lunatics, and/or possible serial killers.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

He meant the older blonde. 'She looks local.' She had the unmistakably trashy, bleach-blond air of a town-bred girl. Fake wallet aside, Allison Spooner appeared to be several rungs up on the social ladder. It didn't jibe that the two would be friends. 'Maybe Spooner had a drug problem?' Lena guessed. Nothing crossed class lines like methamphetamine

You had so many friends.

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Granted, that's maybe two hundred people and some of the more socially engaged hedgehogs, but the story might stir up some interests elsewhere.

Just about every gang in America had started as a group of minorities, be they Irish, Jewish, Italian, or other, banding together for survival. It generally took a couple of years before they started doing worse than was done to them.