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Where It Began: Book One: Accidents of Birth Trilogy QUOTES

Where It Began: Book One: Accidents of Birth Trilogy QUOTES

1 " But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture had been hardened by a religion suspect of joy, yet fascinated by sin. Its moral acceptance of slavery eroded compassion. And gentility became a necessary pretense to cover the resentment created long ago when the North’s industrial prestige trumped the agrarian South. It was not an easy place to feel lighthearted or triumphant. Nor was it an easy place to remember the beauty of wonder and awe. "

― Christina Carson , Where It Began: Book One: Accidents of Birth Trilogy

2 " When you come from a long line of suffering, there be no way to kid youself ‘bout its poison, how it get in the veins of families an from generation to generation be passed on like some horrible disease. I think white folk ofttimes can kid theyselves into thinking that such an act begin an end in juss one place. Or maybe they juss be so ‘fraid of what all that mean, they be able to convince theyselves somethun be true when they know deep down it ain’t. But when you come from a people who have suffered for generations, such lying to youself juss make things worse. Fo’ that poison can reach a point where they be no way to end its taint, an then people die; even if they don’ be a lying down in they graves, they be dead to life, an love, beauty an God. Yes, indeed, yes indeed they be. Miss Imogene "

― Christina Carson , Where It Began: Book One: Accidents of Birth Trilogy