Little Scarlet Quotes

“If everybody in the world despises you and hates you, sees your features as ugly and simian, makes jokes about your ways of talking, calls you stupid and beneath contempt; if you have no history, no heroes, and no future where a hero might lead, then you might begin to hate yourself.... And then one hot summer's night you just erupt and go burning and shooting and nobody seems to know why.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet

“THE EMERGENCY ROOM at any hospital in the middle of the night is mainly made up of the consequences of love.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet

“Jackson couldn’t fly straight down if you threw him off a cliff.”
― Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet