{"quotes":[{"text":"Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.","author":"Jennifer Brown","tags":["death","hate-list","school-shooting"],"id":7750,"author_id":"Jennifer+Brown"},{"text":"Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art.","author":"Dan Rather","tags":["ama","art","crude","journalism","media","media-journalism","reddit","school-shooting","science","shooting"],"id":16360,"author_id":"Dan+Rather"},{"text":"Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["coping","memories","school-shooting"],"id":32936,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["family-relationships","glass-girl","grief","gun-violence","love","meg-kavanagh","school-shooting","sibling-death","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":120639,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could’ve been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["glass-girl","grief","gun-violence","laura-anderson-kurk","love","school-shooting","siblings","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":161748,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["depression","family","glass-girl","grief","laura-anderson-kurk","meg-kavanagh","mental-illness","mother-daughter-relationships","school-shooting","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":168342,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"His fingers gouged into my leg harder. 'My sister was in that cafeteria,' he said. 'She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She still has nightmares about it. He got what he deserved, but you got a free pass. That ain't right. You should've died that day, Sister Death. Everyone wishes you would have. Look around. Where is Jessica, if she wants you here so bad? Even the friends you came here with don't want to be with you.'Let go of me,' I said again, pulling on his fingers. But he only pinched tighter.'Your boyfriend isn't the only one who can get his hands on a gun,' he said. Slowly he eased himself up to standing again. He reached into the waistband of his jeans and pulled out something small and dark. He pointed it at me, and when the moonlight hit it, I gasped and pressed myself against the barn wall.","author":"Jennifer Brown","tags":["blame","hate","school-shooting","threats"],"id":206353,"author_id":"Jennifer+Brown"},{"text":"I could’ve gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered. “My brother died because someone was jealous.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["glass-girl","gun-violence","laura-anderson-kurk","meg-kavanagh","school-shooting","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":351807,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now imagine they were black girls from poor families who lived instead in Chicago, New Haven, Newark, Philadelphia, or Providence. Can you picture the national debate, the headlines, the hand-wringing? There is no doubt we’d be having a national debate about inner-city poor black girls. The entire focus would be on race, class, and gender. The media would doubtless invent a new term for their behavior, as with wilding two decades ago. We’d hear about the culture of poverty, about how living in the city breeds crime and violence. We’d hear some pundits proclaim some putative natural tendency among blacks toward violence. Someone would likely even blame feminism for causing girls to become violent in a vain imitation of boys. Yet the obvious fact that virtually all the rampage school shooters were middle-class white boys barely broke a ripple in the torrent of public discussion. This uniformity cut across all other differences among the shooters: some came from intact families, others from single-parent homes; some boys had acted violently in the past, and others were quiet and unassuming; some boys also expressed rage at their parents (two killed their parents the same morning), and others seemed to live in happy families.","author":"Michael S. Kimmel","tags":["anger","angry-white-males","angry-young-man","class","class-struggle","guns","media","media-bias","media-distortion","privilege","school-shooting","school-shootings","white-privilege"],"id":370479,"author_id":"Michael+S.+Kimmel"},{"text":"I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["anger","bullying","depression","depression","hatred","mental-illness","sadness","school-shooting","violence"],"id":373937,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}