Yellow Crocus Quotes

“Focus on bearing, and beauty will follow. Your looks will not remain with you for life. But your bearing will go with you to the grave.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“But I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man’s a treasure.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“As far as I concerned, God loves ever’body so God forgives ever’body so ever’body gonna get to heaven.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“This is as true a story as has ever been told: the story of my love for Mattie, and, I suppose, her love for me in return.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society so accurate and yet so dreadful.” “I agree. It must be awful to be so bound by what society expects,” Lisbeth answered. “I am so glad to have been born in America, where one has freedom.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Mattie scoffed, “That sound like a foolish rule to me. How ya gonna know if you like being with a man if ya can’ laugh together?”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Lisbeth could no longer pretend enslaving negroes was for their own protection.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“I can’ say much ’bout marriage. But I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man’s a treasure.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man’s a treasure.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“and Maya Ibrahim-Bartley.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“First babies take a long time. We just need to keep her comfortable and let her body keep at it.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Lo sé por experiencia: es mejor no querer demasiado a los hijos de una, porque solo traen dolor.”
― Laila Ibrahim, La flor del azafrán amarillo

“«Todos los siervos llegados o traídos al país … que no fueran cristianos en su nación de origen … serán tenidos por esclavos. Todos los esclavos negros, mulatos o indios que habiten estos dominios … serán considerados bienes raíces».”
― Laila Ibrahim, La flor del azafrán amarillo

“I want a good man more than I want a good husband.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“romance will not ensure your happiness as easily as the finer things in life.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Our forebears were quite clear on the matter: slaves are only three-fifths of a man. They are not entitled to the same rights as Christians.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“I do not care if it is the fashion. It is unseemly for a woman of your stature to feed a child. Your heartbreak would only be greater should they die. I know from experience, it is best not to love your children too deeply, as it only causes pain.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“In addition, social status for slaves transferred from mother to child rather than from father to child, so regardless of your father’s status, you would be a slave if your mother was enslaved. Those changes in social codes ensured eighteenth-century planters of Virginia a steady supply of workers.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“All indentured servants, both European and African, agreed to work off their debt for seven to fifteen years. After that, they were to be released and given five acres of land each, a bushel of seed, and the freedom to pursue their own fortunes in the New World.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Lisbeth, I”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Sinceramente, no sé de dónde sacas semejantes ideas. Deben de ser tus lecturas de Jane Austen.”
― Laila Ibrahim, La flor del azafrán amarillo

“Young ladies may speak to young men about the weather, meals, clothing, and their relatives. Avoid conversation concerning politics, finance, or religion. Though a gentleman may bring up such topics, and a lady must follow where a gentleman leads,”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“want a good man more than I want a good husband. I believe you are such a man.” Lisbeth searched Matthew’s face, looking for any sign of understanding.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“gonna”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Getting dressed was complicated. She did not want to raise her parents’ suspicions, but she wanted to look nice on her wedding day. While Emily waited, Lisbeth spent considerable time sorting through her gowns. In addition to wanting an attractive dress, she needed one that she could remove herself. She did not know if someone would be available to help her undress. She did not allow herself to think about where or with whom she would be undressing that night, but she would have to get used to dressing herself in the future. Her new life was beginning today. Eventually she chose a Swiss dot with a light-blue background and bright-blue dots that buttoned down the front. It was not particularly tight in the bodice, so she could wear a corset that laced on the side”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“her mind, Mattie shouted, Mama, don’ leave me! Take me with you! To the world, she appeared sturdy and calm, like a thick tree trunk planted firmly in the ground.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“shoulder. Though the”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus

“Mattie’s torso with a heavy cloth.”
― Laila Ibrahim, Yellow Crocus