Carey

“Cora flanked the group like a successful drill sergeant, and she made a point of personally addressing each neighbor that was standing on the stoop and alongside the outside railing, ignoring the openly surprise stairs as they emerge from the building. Where could she be going with all them kids? The welfare office wasn't open.”
― Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place

“Conjugation is bacteria's answer to sexual reproduction, a method of genetic shuffling.”
― Robin Cook, Toxin

“Cora Lee mustn't let the Murphy boy or any other boy show her the thing that felt good in the dark, because her body could now make babies and she wasn't old enough to be a mother. Did she understand? And as she would watch the disjointed mysteries of life connect up in her daughter's mind and hear her breathe out with enchanted wonder--- "A real baby, Mother?"--- the image of that Christmas would come smashing into her brain like a meat cleaver. It was then that she began to worry.”
― Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place

“She was ready for him and didn't mind if anyone knew it. They were desperate, I could see, in their own ways, but desperate people have a way of matching frequencies and finding each other before the end comes.”
― Colin Harrison, The Havana Room