Katie Antonelli

“I had no right telling you how you should feel. No right claiming knowledge on things I could and will never feel. I've never known harm or exile because of my skin. Nor felt the lash of leather whips or angry tongues because of it.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“The power of land held a connection I could reckon with… For me, the earth gives life, and without it, we have none, not the smallest breath.” “Pa says if we hurt it, it won’t feed us.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“A funny thing happens when a man thinks he has a woman's company all to himself.
He may show a face to her that he would keep hidden if there were even one more person around. He speaks from his secret self.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women