Gilma Newmann

“Do you know whom you are talking to?" he exclaimed.
She replied, "Yes, I know very well who I am talking to.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“He glanced at Sally. She sat on the edge, her feet dangling over the two-hundred-foot drop, just like he’d done all those years ago, secretly hoping his parents would tell him to come back, that it was dangerous. They never even got out of the car.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had yet to learn how to truly love myself.  ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

“He knew the sound of an AK-47. It made a high-pitched, more mechanical crack than the American rifle, the M16, which made a deeper, rounder sort of pop.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam