Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave.""Does she have a grave...
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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...
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Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
