Quotes From "Yellow Crocus" By Laila Ibrahim

Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society so accurate and yet so dreadful.” “I agree. It must be awful to be so bound by what society expects, ” Lisbeth answered. “I am so glad to have been born in America, where one has freedom. Laila Ibrahim

This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North. Laila Ibrahim

Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors Laila Ibrahim