Lina

“He stopped laughing and stared. He was full of what he wanted to say, but he could not say it. He groped for words, but none came. One of the policemen walked over and reached out with his right hand and tugged at his sleeve.”
― Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground

“Mother hold you. Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books.  Now the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt to be spoken.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, My Lady Ludlow

“This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and feeling that has always fascinated me.”
― Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground