“One man's flash of lightning, ripping through the air, is another's passing glare. Hardly there.”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
“She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day.”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
“Everything is killing him and yet his life just keeps on dragging; the morning comes and here he is, awake again. Alive.”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
“It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
“It gets to painful. You give too much, they take too much, or not enough, and suddenly you find yourself emptied out and open handed, grabbing for some more.”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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