“Listen honey,” I said despite my thrumming heart. “You’re gorgeous. I only meet a woman like you once every 5 years or so. But when I do, somebody always ends up wantin’ to kill me. And you know I could find me a homely girl and be half as happy and live twice as...
“Now Phoeby, don’t feel too mean with the rest of ’em ’cause they’s parched up from not knowin’ things. Them meat skins is gotta rattle to make out they’s alive. Let ’em consulate themselves with talk, ’cause talkin’ don’t amount to a hill of beans when you can’t do...
The best time to kill someone is when they’re going through a door. While passing from one place to another, most people are a little off guard. Distracted by the subtle displacement separating here from there. He hit me in the upper part of my left temple as I was...
“Now ain’t the time to be sentimental, sistuh. The dead is dead, and the livin’ is livin’. Some of de livin’ is just holdin’ on, but dey still among us. We need to do all we can to keep it dat way. We gotta do dis work. You gotta take me to his grave.” Delilah Ashford...