S Tterlinschrift Quotes & Sayings

I am born as the South explodes, too many people too many years enslaved, then emancipated but not free, the people who look like me keep fighting and marching and getting killed so that today - February 12, 1963 and every day from this moment on, brown children like me can grow up free. Can grow up learning and voting and walking and riding wherever we want. I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins. — Jacqueline Woodson

There will be Casnoff butt kicked and all sorts of names taken. And hey, maybe I'll get some new scars."
Both of them hugged me tighter. "We love you, Soph," Mom said.
"Quite right," Dad added, and I laughed, even as my stomach twisted itself into a balloon animal. — Rachel Hawkins

Is this man your hunka hunka burning love?" Elvis asked. Myrna laughed. "I'll say." "Does this woman have you all shook up?" Elvis asked. Brian grinned. "Yeah, she does. — Olivia Cunning

There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true. — Robert Breault