Jaymie Polo

“My dear cousin, can you be satisfied with such a way of spending your probation?”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Recognize what I have done as a crime. Face how deeply my actions and violations have impacted and devastated you. See you as a human being. Attempt to experience or feel what it felt like inside you. Feel profound remorse and regret over my actions. And finally, take responsibility for my actions by doing extensive work to understand what made me do what I did.”
― V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology

“The warm, resonant tones drifted through the wreckage, full-bodied and alive, a memory in every octave.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“Some poor soul has been living a nightmare.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher