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1 " Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most. "
― Tiffany D. Jackson , Monday's Not Coming
2 " I mean, maybe it wasn't so crazy after all. Maybe just thinking outside the box is how you get further than you ever could dream of. "
― Tiffany D. Jackson , Let Me Hear a Rhyme
3 " Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.Rumors do not have expiration dates.Rumors can be deadly.Rumors can get you killed. "
4 " What a woman wears or doesn’t wear doesn’t give anyone the right to touch them. Well, you know he’s had a rough childhood. Abandoned by his mom, didn’t know his father, raised by his grandma who passed. We’ve all BEEN through a lot but that don’t give you no excuse to abuse girls. "
― Tiffany D. Jackson , Grown
5 " I know what you’re thinking. How can a whole person, a kid, disappear and no one say a word? Like if the sun just up and left one day, you’d think someone would sound an alarm, right? But Ma used to say, not everyone circles the same sun. I never knew what she meant by that until Monday went missing. "
6 " When people feel insecure, they create a grand self-image in an attempt to compensate for what is lacking internally. They present this façade to the world in order to hide the emptiness they feel, thus falling in love with the idea of themselves. But, if you threaten their self-image—threaten to expose the thing they love most, themselves—they will react, often in a hostile manner. "
― Tiffany D. Jackson , Allegedly
7 " So remember, Sweet Pea, just 'cause someone got a roof, don't make it a home" -Janet (Ma) "
8 " Our daughter was stalked, preyed upon, and assaulted by a grown man. This is when we need our village the most. "
9 " Like the color pink, someone always sees the story different. Some see rose and magenta, and other see coral and salmon. When at the end of the day, it’s just regular old pink. "
10 " Trying to reclaim your life is a lot like drowning. You attempt to stay above water as waves of new information hit you sideways, carrying you further into the unknown. People throw life preservers, but the ropes can only reach so far, and once a riptide catches you by the ankle, all you can do is wonder why you ever thought you’d be OK jumping into the deep end, when you could barely manage the shallows. "
11 " This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later. "
12 " Hard to celebrate the day you were born when everybody seems to wish you were never born at all. "
13 " If Monday were a color, she'd be red. Crisp, striking, vivid you couldn't miss her - a bull's-eye in the room, a crackling flame.I saw so much red that it blinded me to any flags" -Claudia "
14 " Yo, Malcolm X said it best. “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman. "
15 " But when help isn't invited, it ain't nothing but an unwanted houseguest. "
16 " Monday worried she'd know about my problem if I got too close to her. But when you're always cold, it's easy to be drawn to the sun" -Claudia "
17 " You only get one shot at your kids, so you need to hit the bull’s-eye. "
18 " There is a calm in the chaos that most folks don’t see. "
19 " I'm so sorry, Daddy."None of this is your fault. Not one drop of it. No child should ever take the blame for a man's actions. "
20 " If Mrs. Charles were a color, she'd be yellow - bright, cheerful, golden rays of sunshine. A ripe banana, a fresh highlighter, sweet like pineapples, tart like lemons, you could lose her in a field of dandelions. One drop of her coloring could turn plain buttercream frosting into the sweetest Easter cake.But one drop of another color could spoil her brightness. Leave her out in the heat too long and her banana peel would start to rot. The tip of her highlighter blackens with wear. The prickling of her pineapple skin sometimes leaves her impossible to open.And dandelions are nothing but pretty weeds."-Claudia "
