Jessia Waldrup

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“My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

tags: defiance, fearless

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“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
‘Oh, great.’
‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
the cat.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult

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“I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.”
― Alice Walker

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“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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