Shaneka Whedon

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“She told herself, finally, that she must face it or die . . . But this was just a whisper in the self, that flutter within which starts as a tiny plea and fights to grow in strength and resonance. So, she stood by it and fought for it, but not before her life and her love took the losses redemption almost always exacts from the redeemed.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“So why not a woman, too—if I was dating her?”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

“Making the right use of a book doesn’t result in finding evil, but rather, as an appealing saying puts it, evidence of our hearts.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition