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“It hurts watching my dad smile at air, while aging in despair.”

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Source: This Time Tomorrow

“Tired of how it felt to know that her life was going to change and that she was going to have this enormous hole forever. Soon.”

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Book:This Time Tomorrow

Source: This Time Tomorrow

“It’s also good to look for the silver linings when it comes to our families too. For a long time, this thought of being a grown-up kid who hasn’t left her nuclear family made me feel kind of embarrassed and like I was doing things wrong. But over the last few years, I’ve realized how lucky I am. The time we get with our parents is finite and, thanks to my long-term singleness, I have got to spend a lot more time with them than I may otherwise have done.”

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Book:Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

Source: Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“But for the most part we wouldn’t have otherwise got to spend that extended time with them in our thirties. For me, it really was a blessing in disguise.”

Single Life Aging Parents

Book:Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

Source: Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't dump no white folks in de hole jus' so." "Whut tuh do 'bout de colored folks? Got boxes fuh dem too? “Nope. They cain't find enough of 'em tuh go 'round. Jus' sprinkle plenty quick-lime over 'em and cover 'em up." "Shucks! Nobody can't tell nothin' 'bout some uh dese bodies, de shape dey's in. Can't tell whether dey's white or black." The guards had a long conference over that. After a while they came back and told the men, "Look at they hair, when you cain't tell no other way. And don't lemme ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored. They's too hard tuh git holt of right now." "They's mighty particular how dese dead folks goes tuh judgment," Tea Cake observed to the man working next to him. "Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law.”

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Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel about them.”

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“I knew where my father was too; my mother had shown me his resting place on the day of his funeral. It’s a bit far away, she told me, but we’ll both be joining him there someday, so we’re not likely to lose track of the spot. Your father is kind, she added, so he’s gone on ahead to see where we’ll be.”

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Book:Mina's Matchbox

Source: Mina's Matchbox

“Guido raised his hand to his head and moved his index finger around in a circle near his temple indicating Smalley Pauley had some mental issues.”

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Book:Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Writing crime thrillers is all about building scenes within chapters. Each scene, written from a specific character’s point of view, must ratchet up the tension. And the final scene in every chapter? It has to be so gripping that it leaves the reader no choice but to turn the page.”

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“From the ashes of failure, sorrow, hardship, and loss, the most exquisite souls arise, their journey marked by empathy and humility. Those who have plumbed the depths of despair and emerged, transformed, possess an ineffable beauty of spirit that cannot be denied. They, tempered by adversity, radiate empathy, humility, and a profound reverence for life, serving as beacons of inspiration to all who behold them. Remember, dear ones, the most exquisite spirits are not born of idyllic circumstances but are forged in the crucible of life's trials.”

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Author:Bishop W.F. Houston Jr.