Rose Gold Quotes

“Readin’ good books is like meetin’ a girl you wanna get to know bettah,”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“If Satan played bingo in hell, I had just gotten my final winning/losing number.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“Oddly his threats soothed my nerves. I was used to men in authority trying to intimidate me. It almost always meant they had something to protect.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“If you need charity for your people,” she told me he’d said, “then your society has failed.” She had taken a special”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“Her touch was akin to a blessing but I walked to my car knowing that I was still damned.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“Neither she nor her brother had one drop of blood in common with me, or each other, but they were my kids and we were family.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“Mothers and fathers of our heritage nurtured hopes of our children fading into the background like that uninspired building and its brethren. If they went unnoticed they had a shot at living fruitful lives, unmolested by the predators that picked off our heroes, and villains, every time one of them reared their head.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“The roads twist and turn up there like maggots on an overripe peach.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“It didn’t matter that it wouldn’t last. Beauty never did.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold

“A big part of my life was spent getting the keys for or driving my car. My constant friend was the radio, and most of my conversations were not face-to-face but side by side in the front seat or through the rearview mirror of some jalopy that I would drive until it gave out and I had to buy a new one. I was like some kind of futuristic hermit crab being carried by my temporary husk from place to place rather than feeling the sun on my head or my feet on the ground.”
― Walter Mosley, Rose Gold