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1 " I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. "
― Abigail Padgett , The Paper Doll Museum
2 " The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl.... "
― Abigail Padgett , Blue (Blue, #1)
3 " Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life. "
― Abigail Padgett , An Unremembered Grave
4 " It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. “Flat,” she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge. "
― Abigail Padgett , Child of Silence (Bo Bradley, #1)
5 " It occurred to me that soon I would need a scroll of butcher paper and a felt-tip pen to record the list of completely senseless things comprising my life. I would tape the scroll to the wall and conduct a focus group of one. "
