“Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
― Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood
“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself to the GOD of chance—and chance is a wayward bitch.”
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
― The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
“I couldn’t remember a time when I felt the type of love Miruna had. Eternal love. The kind which keeps one going when one is ninety and alone.”
― Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
― Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
“They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.”
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“A black woman challenging the system and taking on a white man—especially a white cop—is not going to have an easy time.”
― Betrayal In Black
― Betrayal In Black
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