

“The geographer Oren Yiftachel from Ben-Gurion University, depicted Israel as an ethnocracy, a regime governing a mixed ethnic state with a legal and formal preference for one ethnic group over all the others. Others went further, labeling Israel an apartheid state or a settler colonial state. In short, whatever description these critical scholars offered, "democracy" was not among them.”
― Ten Myths About Israel
― Ten Myths About Israel

“The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.”
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

“One thing,鈥� she whispered, her lips by his jaw. She didn鈥檛 want anyone to overhear. 鈥淏efore I forget.鈥� 鈥淲hat鈥檚 that?鈥� 鈥淪top writing about me.鈥� Only Eva could鈥檝e noticed the change in his expression. She saw the flinch. The slow, satisfied curl of his lip. His bronzy-amber eyes flashing. It was like he鈥檇 been waiting years to hear those words. Like the girl whose pigtails he鈥檇 been yanking during recess all year had finally shoved him back. He looked gratified. In a voice both raspy and low, and so, so familiar, Shane said, 鈥淵ou first.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June

“Just say it,鈥� Eva said with a smile. 鈥淚鈥檝e never said it. To anyone.鈥� 鈥淚t won鈥檛 hurt, I promise.鈥� Shane grinned, a heart-stopping thing. Then laid his face on her breasts, closing his eyes. 鈥淩eady?鈥� he asked. 鈥淩eady.鈥� 鈥淚 love you,鈥� said Shane. 鈥淒ramatically, violently, and forever.鈥� She kissed the top of his head, smiling brighter than the sun. 鈥淚鈥檝e always loved you,鈥� he whispered. 鈥淲hat a coincidence,鈥� she whispered back. 鈥淚鈥檝e always loved you, too.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June

“I idealize you in fiction because I idealized you in real life,鈥� he continued.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
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