Goody

“I wanted to believe, for years, that Adam didn’t remember that night because of how hard he hit his head. The truth was, I think Adam’s spirit was broken in that moment. It was the first and last time he ever put himself in Dad’s path. Unbeknownst to me, Adam had taken one blow and immediately passed the martyr torch to the next in line. It wasn’t ignorance, the years of ignoring and denying what happened in our home, it was a deliberate surrender.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“to catch runoff water from the roof for laundry purposes; when it did not rain, a big tank wagon”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“led by Lieutenants Price and Volkmar, the pursuing Indians retreated. North rode his horse in a circle, according to Cody, "a traditional plains signal for `enemy in sight." North's Pawnee scouts "broke ranks pell inell and, with Major North at their head, started”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“The alarm goes at seven but Faith Appleford has already been up for an hour. Hair, clothes, shoes, make-up, it all takes time. She’s sitting at her dressing table now, putting the finishing touches to her mascara, hearing her mother calling up the stairs from the kitchen.”
― Cara Hunter, All the Rage