“Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.”
― The Midnight Dancers
― The Midnight Dancers
“Shouts outdoors announced that the younger boys were home. They tore inside and pounded into the kitchen, then pulled to a halt to gape at her.
Alex intervened. 'Ah. Here, Kateri, are the inhabitants of this house known collectively as the barbarian horde. As the Chinese treated the Mongolians, so we share the same territory, and attempt to control, educate, and eventually civilize them.”
― Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves
Alex intervened. 'Ah. Here, Kateri, are the inhabitants of this house known collectively as the barbarian horde. As the Chinese treated the Mongolians, so we share the same territory, and attempt to control, educate, and eventually civilize them.”
― Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
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“She hurried off, leaving Rose feeling like the tiny soap suds left over from a burst bubble.”
― The Shadow of the Bear
― The Shadow of the Bear
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