“This statement of the jurors’ sense of justice may be the most succinct and forthright declaration of white privilege and racial paternalism I have ever heard.”
― The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
― The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“His mouth slid into a smug grin. "Warm up the arm."
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― The Real Ones
― The Real Ones
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened”
― Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
― Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here she is resetting my fantasies as if it were yesterday”
― Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
― Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
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