Cora Quote by Colson Whitehead

“And as we stood half circle in the bright school yard, we saw the lost and beautiful and hungry in each of us. We…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Things happened in the neighborhood, yes, and there were kids she knew who got caught up, but there were others, too, who had taken…

— Naima Coster

“They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something…

— Kevin Wilson

“Eleanor sitting next to him on the couch made Park feel like someone had opened a window in the middle of the room. Like…

— Rainbow Rowell

“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with…

— Jane Langton

“in for the evening. The town rose into view, the biggest Cora had seen since North Carolina, if not as long established. The long…

— Colson Whitehead

“Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail…

— Rainbow Rowell

“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she had run…

— Ross Caligiuri

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain. In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all.”

— Karen Hesse

“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after…

— Craig Davidson

“The sound of carriage wheels and horses was faint,seeming more distant than they actually were. Drops of water clung to the wool of my…

— Alyxandra Harvey