“On the outside, you’re such a gentle person, Lucy, almost too passive sometimes. But your core is made of titanium, or at least it is where I’m concerned.”
― A Watershed Year
― A Watershed Year
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are they crazy?” –Albert Einstein”
― Very Bad Things
― Very Bad Things
“It was so different to be two free black young people, free to think, free to love, free to decide things for ourselves, free to become what we wanted, free to be the people we wanted to make ourselves, not what somebody else wanted us to be.”
― A Perilous Proposal
― A Perilous Proposal
“And while nothing is as bad as slavery, we weren’t really “free,” because hatred and prejudice creates an invisible bondage of its own, just as sure as had the chains of the white masters.”
― A Perilous Proposal
― A Perilous Proposal
“Nothing just happens, Jake. Everything means something because God made it. You mean something. Figuring out what life means is the same as figuring out what you mean. What’s your life supposed to be about? That’s what falling in with the order of things means—living in the way God means you to live.”
― A Perilous Proposal
― A Perilous Proposal
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