Brianna

“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

“The sword pulled free with a gruesome sucking sound that brought bile into Jason’s throat. The fellow collapsed, his eyes going dull as his bright blood spurted in a grotesque fountain that soaked Jason’s shirt and choked his nostrils with a salty, metallic stench. Stunned, he watched the blood pump hard then slow to a trickle—a spreading red puddle that seeped into the cracks between the stones. The dead man’s face drained of color, to match the white lace at his throat.”
― Lauren Royal, The Marquess's Scottish Bride

“Dumber than a box of hair.”
― Lauren Royal, The Marquess's Scottish Bride

“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