Brianna

“An entire generation was growing up in a world without sure principles by which to live in peace. And I couldn’t help but wonder, would my own son, after what he’d seen in the streets, come of age believing that there was no way to solve any problem but with a club or a pistol?”
― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

“cocaine or heroin.”
― Kate Cullen, Diary of a Wickedly Cool Witch 2: BOYFRIEND STEALER.

“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