“Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died. He used to say there were rubies buried deep inside of you. Remember, baby, don't never… — Cynthia Bond Copy Share
“Lord child you ain't nothing but a doorway. How many haints you count at your heels?” — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
“Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it… — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
“Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died. He used to say there were rubies buried deep inside of you. Remember, baby, don't never let a man mine you for your riches. Don't let him take a pickax to that treasure in your soul.… — Cynthia Bond Copy Share
“Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.” — Cynthia bond Copy Share Image
“from across the room, she caught a supportive, conspiratorial wink from James Baldwin and felt, for a moment, seen and known by sparkling brilliance.” — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
“It was the burden God had decided to fit upon their shoulders. That and their mother having a new home from that day forward-Dearing… — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
“I T WAS the wrong Liberty. One hundred and four miles south- west from its Colored namesake, Liberty Township.” — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
“Ruby would never have discovered Page Three and Abby, had it not been for the ease of older women.” — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
