Loreal Patterson’s Reviews > Ours > Status Update

“…leaving Saint to consider how nothing was ever purely sudden. Every feeling had a history that could unbury the dead and still find some life.”

Cruelty makes a liar out of the cruel

Obligation and love are not the same thing. There’s a difference between doing something because you feel it’s your duty and doing something because your heart would die otherwise.

“They went to tawdry outdoor churches where a white preacher tried to tell them their fate had been given to them by the very God they were supposed to worship, though he gave no reasons as to why God thought it was plausible that a slave could serve two masters when no one else on earth was allowed to”

This is one I’ve been waiting to dive into!