Keisha

“Good. You’ll find most people, when you get to know them, are not what you were afraid they’d be. They’re only people.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether

“learned three things from Emilika that day: First, walk as if you have important business, and most people will assume you do. Second, always have your hair curled. And third, help can come when it’s least expected, and that’s good to remember, because it means you’re never really alone.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

“Look at our skin, Hela,” I whispered. “Yours is a little browner than mine, but it’s still skin, isn’t it? It’s skin over blood over bones, just like any person. A Jew is a person with blood and skin and a family, some of them good, some of them bad, just like everyone. Only they choose Moses as their leader instead of Jesus. But remember, Jesus was a Jew, too. One God for both, Hela. Our mama said that.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Light in Hidden Places

“He’d forgotten, having lived so long with fighting and with death, how life looked when it was beginning over. Beautiful.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether