92 Quotes by Alyssa Cole

My mama has me trained well. Even if my hair is getting pulled out by the roots, I can sit still and not move.

He’d been wrong about her, had seen her as some timid woodland creature who might skitter too close to him if she wasn’t careful, and get caught in his snare if he wasn’t even more careful than her, but in fact she was simply kind. Nothing so benign as nice or pleasant, but kind. There was nothing soft or gentle about that trait in a world that specialized in crushing it.

What is the proper response to seeing a child arrested? Another child, the umpteenth child, when you’ve lived here long enough. And worse, arrested for something you can’t be sure they actually did, even if they get found guilty?

I fight for the Union because America is supposed to be a land where people can be free from tyranny, where families aren’t ripped apart to make a profit, where men aren’t whipped for speaking their mind and women aren’t abused worse than brood mares.

The facts come eventually, one of her professors had told their class. but before that, there is instinct. it’s not mumbo-jumbo – we are animals, after all, and instinct is just a tool in our species survival kit.

She locked the brakes on her chair, gripped the handles, and then pushed herself to a standing position. Her arms shook a bit, but she transferred herself to the couch smoothly, crossing her legs before reaching for the remote resting on the table.

People bury the parts of history they don’t like, pave it over like African cemeteries beneath Manhattan skyscrapers.

Okay, Fitzwilliam. You’d rather I focus on your behavior before you presented me with this miraculous letter?

I need you to channel the confidence of a mediocre white man.