Peggy Eckhold

“It is true that the victim was a black man, and there is a school of thought which would regard such an offence as less serious when the victim is black.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“over our house. My mother became nearly mute and more often than not the only sound from her was weeping. She kept the curtains drawn so that it felt as if permanent night had fallen. Never much concerned anyway with her mundane domestic duties she completely stopped cooking and cleaning and sat for hours in the quiet dark of the living room. She was flesh without spirit, eyes without sight. It felt as”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace