

“Here’s a story that helps her tie the “bunny ear bowâ€� exactly the same way every time.”
― Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story
― Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

“The reality of what was happening sank in. How and why had he ended up here? Why had Bevin and Charles been murdered?”
― Murder on the Naval Base
― Murder on the Naval Base

“The final sound of the rifle shot bounced around the lake.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow

“Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use his own words, further, he said, "If you give a [n****r] an inch, he will take an ell. A [n****r] should know nothing but to obey his master--to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best [n****r] in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that [n****r] (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy.”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”
― Mourning Grey: Part Two
― Mourning Grey: Part Two
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