It’s like I live in a cage with no door and no key. And I have no way to tell someone how to get me out.
“I am telling her how these streets open us up and remove the part of us most worth keeping: the child left in us.”
― Nightcrawling
― Nightcrawling
“Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard the burden of race. It was, she cried silently, enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one’s own account, without having to suffer for the race as well. It was a brutality, and undeserved.”
― Passing
― Passing
“She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt.”
― Nightcrawling
― Nightcrawling
“Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance.”
― Passing
― Passing
“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
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