"I don't want any trouble. I had that before. That's how I ended up here." Victoria #HarlemAfterMidnight

"Shame was and awfully good reason for not wanting to talk about the past." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"I wasn't surprised. Rich white folk like that, they throw money around and expect to get away with anything and everything." Leon Jones #HarlemAfterMidnight

"There was history all around here, and no one of it good." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"He wondered if his Victoria lived in a house like this. She'd vanished from his landscape...He couldn't blame her. This house, this life, was safe. Comfortable." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"The house was silent. Should he just begin? Was that his job, to break this terrible peace that mad the house feel more like a museum than like a home?" #HarlemAfterMidnight

"Alfie knew what a girl from his part of town would be called for doing similar, but he hadn't known that so many rich girls were prone to the same predilections. Weren't they too busy calling upon one another sifting through prospective husbands?" #HarlemAfterMidnight

"He'd thought Victoria to be extraordinary, not of her type, but perhaps she was just following a traditional rite of passage. Her own minor rebellion before settling back into the life set out for her." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"I thought about trying out as a dancer years back - I even got an audition at the #CottonClub when it was still up here in Harlem - but sometimes it's better to be less noticeable, you know?" Mabel Bennett #HarlemAfterMidnight

"It was a biological fact that I was her daughter, nothing more." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"I couldn't judge her motives; I'd done worse than spend an evening making small talk with a dullard just to get a free dinner." #HarlemAfterMidnight

"You know, life has a way of surprising you. It might seem as though you're on the scrap heap, but things can change." Lena Aldridge #HarlemAfterMidnight

"Whatever it is, I've heard worse, believe me." Lena Aldridge #HarlemAfterMidnight