Soleil

“Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.”
― Pete Hamill, Snow in August

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally