41 Quotes by Beverly Jenkins

Because we can’t tell others about our accomplishments if we don’t know them ourselves.

I shot the sheriff?

Although there were only five children enrolled, every educated child was an asset to the race.

Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. “Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we’ve become.

My great-great grandfather was a Tory and fought on the side of the Crown against the rebels.” “He was on the losing side then?

Her five-feet seven-inch frame.

Lady Ruby was behind the long wooden bar. Her shoulder length red wig was slightly askew and she was wearing a voluminous silver wrapper on her tall large-boned frame. She was also sporting enough silver jewelry on her wrists and fingers to be officially declared a mine.

She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.