Brianna

“Oh, my.” Frances’s older sister’s name. Corinna’s mother’s. “May I hold her?” Griffin laughed. “I thought you didn’t want a baby.” “There’s a big difference between having one and holding one,” she retorted, opening her arms.”
― Lauren Royal, Corinna

“She’d wanted nothing more than to escape Jackson’s and go home, yet now she was beginning to see that it was the people who made a home, not the place, and her home was dead.”
― Rachel M. Raithby, Winter Wolf

“I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books. The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Aye. From this day onward…” He hesitated, but before she could worry over his silence, he said, “With you at my side, I shall think love, feel love, breathe love, and embrace love.”
― Tamara Leigh, The Redeeming