“There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.”

“The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.”

“Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.”

“Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.”

“A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just cant stay still.”

“The condition of the black race, their pain, their wounds, would in his mind become merged with his own: the absent father and the hint of scandal, a mother who had gone away, the cruelty of other ...”