Eula Signor

“Truly, the colored race are the most cheerful and forgiving people on the face of the earth. That their masters sleep in safety is owing to their superabundance of heart; and yet they look upon their sufferings with less pity than they would bestow on those of a horse or a dog.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Whenever the sky quaked, women uttered a blessing: Lord preserve me from the wrath of Lilith. But I could never bring myself to say it. I would whisper instead, Lord, bless the roaring”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Life took longer to reassemble that it did to blow apart, but that didn’t meant wouldn’t be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“Junior finds what he’s seeking in a swale between two ridges. He glasses down at the elk from a hillside aflame with autumn color. The animal strides through the clearing about five hundred yards due east, dipping its head now and then to nibble on receding grass that soon will disappear for the winter.”
― C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile