DR

“Because the heart always tells on itself. Even when we think we hidin’ it.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Parents spend their youth trying to understand their children; children spend their adulthood trying to understand their parents.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you’d have a little love left over for the next one.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“I would have to talk to her about leaving the key outside. There were too many crazy and delusional people in the world.”
― Octavia Grant, Dear Vicky