Best Kindle Scout Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.”

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Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“...the locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the time they had spent together, but simply did not dwell on it much. She had been a seat filler, memorable as the smiling face of a beautiful girl in the window of a passing train, inspiring a fleeting moment of joy and promise, immediately forgotten with the opening of that day’s newspaper.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily solved. As the weight of responsibility bore down on a person, it could feel like a long list of chores leading up to the final one - figuring out how to die with dignity. But Quincy’s interpretation of his surroundings seemed a truer representation of life’s meaning, or rather, the lack of meaning other than to dazzle and delight and befuddle from cradle to grave.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Author:Roy L. Pickering Jr.

“Was happiness (which was perhaps achieved not by getting what you wanted, but rather, by obtaining what you didn’t know you wished for until it was in hand) a hologram that would continually change appearance with the slightest shift of perspective? Or maybe happiness by definition was a temporary state of being recognizable only in hindsight. It was impossible to catch what always managed to be overrun and end up in the rear view mirror.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.”

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Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and reflect on what might have been. He would look upon the woman who occupied the opposite half of his bed and feel his life had not quite lived up to the promise of another day. These moments would be mercifully brief, or so he hoped.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience

“Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.”

Fiction Novel Contemporary African American New York City Mainstream Amazon Literary Poc Women S Issues Diverse Characters Roy L Pickering Jr Upmarket Commercial Fiction Kindle Scout

Book:Matters of Convenience

Source: Matters of Convenience