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“Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Lucius could tell that the mercenary was not proud to admit to being driven by anger. It kept him alive. Why then, would it bother him?”
― The Companions
― The Companions
“Look around! Look what we’ve done to the world. We fucked everything up. In a few years it’s going to be unlivable. We don’t deserve to be stewards of this planet. And that pales to the things we do to each other. We’re monsters, Sander, and someone needs to end it.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough
“For now, I had escaped. I was free. And I wanted to know what freedom really felt like, at least for a while.”
― Child of Another Kind
― Child of Another Kind
“Half asleep in the sun, reassured by the familiar smell of frying fat, I’d make promises to God. If only He’d let me be a singer! I knew I’d probably turn to whiskey and rock ’n’ roll like they all did, but not for years, I promised. Not for years, Lord. Not till I had glorified His name and bought Mama a yellow Cadillac and a house on Old Henderson Road.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
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