"When grandfather died, I was his only living relative. I inherited everything that grandfather owned. Money, cars, clothes, jewels, property, everything was mine. I had always been a very unlucky person. After two divorces, bankruptcy, and more of my share of jail time, finally, Lady Luck had smiled upon me."
"The silence of the early morning is interrupted by the crowing of a rooster perched on a white picket fence. The crowing can be heard for many miles. The crowing is both soothing and eerie at the same time."
"People were always asking for the recipe or trying to buy the recipe to make My Cookies. I knew that most people could not deal with the reality of the recipe’s true composition, flour made from roaches, so I would not give or sell anybody the recipe."
"I closed the door and walked slowly towards Bird. Bird started talking to me. It was not speaking little phrases or a couple of words. It talked in well thought out sentences."
"What sane person would do the things that I had done? I can’t continue to play this game. I need to be free and when I am free, they will see just how crazy I really am."
"The first place that we went to was the park. There wasn’t a kid in sight, there were just a few senior citizens out riding the swings and walking about. The old people around here sure do have a lot of energy."
"There is an old nursery rhyme that says that sticks and stones may brake your bones but words can never hurt you. That’s not true at all. Words can hurt you very bad. Words can get you killed. Words like; It’s over, I hate you, I’m cheating on you, and even worse."
"Lorain caught the eye of Casanova Brown. He had to have her. He pursued Lorain relentlessly. You might even say that he stalked her, but in a very classy way."
"Little Kenney’s parents knew that with the right care and with a lot of love, Little Kenney would outgrow his fragile physical state. They knew that he would get stronger and that he would no longer be a bubble child."
"Your advise stinks. I should sue you and that stinking paper that you write for. You told me to stalk my man. You told me that he would come around to my way of thinking. It never happened. He had me arrested on several occasions."