The Girl at the Back of the Bus Quotes

“Ain’t easy feeling victorious when you’re running from the first sin to the second.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“I’ve never lived a day without my mother. This world can’t feel right without her. When she leaves there’ll be a hole in my soul no one else can fill.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“the only constant thing in life is what?” “Change,”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“You try to make things work just so they make sense.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“Beloved, the scriptures say “it’s appointed unto men once to die.” I’ve made my appointment with God. I’m not leaving a second sooner, and I’m not staying a second too long.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“Life is precious. And entirely too brief to expend energy on what makes you miserable. Or living an obligatory life without satisfaction.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus

“Raised by activists who’d instilled a deep sense of pride in me, the burden of race relations had made it impossible for me to come to the relationship without four hundred years of oppressive history about my neck.”
― Suzette D. Harrison, The Girl at the Back of the Bus