Francesco Digges

“I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It’s as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can’t get you out.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

“A son’s responsibility isn’t to be like his father, but to be better than him.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“A few minutes later, seemingly out of nowhere, he pointed to the dirt and said, “You know, white folks and black folks all buried over top of each other in here. I guess old white granddaddy and his brothers was buried in here too. Really no tellin who in this ground now.” Only thing he knew for sure, he said, was that there was something beautiful about the idea of slave-owning white Lackses being buried under their black kin. “They spending eternity in the same place,” he told me, laughing. “They must’ve worked out their problems by now!”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“It is high time Americans grew accustomed to our traditions.”
― James Rollins, The Eye of God