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A lady knows how to be strong, Kate—and is also smart enough to be sweet, for when just being strong won’t roll the stone.
“Says it’s the folks say they’re not lonely who’d be the saddest of all. ’Cause they hadn’t grown the insides big enough yet to admit it.”
Books can be like friends, yes. But do they keep you warm at night when you grow old? I ask you.”
No matter what he became when he grew up, a Rubik’s Cube would stay in his pocket to help him stay calm. Help him sort out the mess people caused themselves.
“Thinking how some people are real hard to think holy about.”
‘hell is empty, and all the devils are here.’”
“Hard not to spend up the life we’ve got now railing at what we wish hadn’t been.”
the way the past bleeds through the present at every corner—as one character in this novel says, like a camera shutter left open for two hundred years.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Calhoun Street, where Denmark Vesey and several of the slave-revolt strategists had been leaders.
