Picking Cotton Book Club Quotes & Page Numbers by Kelly Anderson

Anthony

2021-10-21 14:12:23 UTC

" i heard another crying saying was she raped too by the same man" page 21

Kaitlyn page 19

2021-10-21 14:16:12 UTC

"Help me, please! I've been raped by a black man! He's after me!"

Santos

2021-10-21 14:16:36 UTC

"I wished I could take off my skin and have them seal away in a plastic bag"
Page 20

Giselle Mendez

2021-10-21 14:19:30 UTC

"Although I didn't want to look at him, i had to."
Jennifer was determined to remember her rapists characteristics.
Page 15

Mariano Mata page 15

2021-10-21 15:42:14 UTC

"I was never so enraged and frightened at the same time"

Amy

2021-10-21 15:42:22 UTC

" My first thought was that he was robbing me and that, when I woke up I'd startled him. I told him he didn't have to hurt me. I would give him my credit card, my car keys. I would not call the police"

Page 13

Gizelle Muniz - Page 14

2021-10-21 15:42:22 UTC

"I cluntched dumbly for anything to prove that this wasn't really happening". But those hours were already part of something else. That seemed to dift further and further out of reach.

jeremy

2021-10-21 15:42:55 UTC

“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out in the world and still be doing time.

ashley

04ashver02359 — 2021-10-21 15:43:50 UTC

¨too frighten to cry, i felt like the wind has been knocked out of me¨ page 31

Joshua Pg 15

2021-10-21 15:45:24 UTC

"did he have scars? Tattoos? He has close-cropped hair."

ANGELO OLVERA

2021-10-21 15:47:12 UTC

"in the tree across from my bedroom window, someone was smoking a cigarette.I couldn't see who it was, but someone was there."

Jacky Velasquez page 21

2021-10-21 17:40:44 UTC

"she was raped.we think its the same man" he not going to get away with this

Adriana page 14

2021-10-21 17:43:25 UTC

"My bones didn't give away. I was alive and breathing, alert to sounds of his unzipping and kicking off his shoes and my silent dread of anticipating what was next"

River- Page 10

2021-10-21 17:44:06 UTC

" I was twenty-two years old and those were the Kind of crystal-clear pictures I carried in my mind."

Daniel Contreras B

2021-10-21 17:45:38 UTC

I don't know how long it took me to make a noise.I tried to get something to come out, but I lay there saying "Ah, ah" the sound of your lungs but barely make a whimper.But finally the volume came.I screamed and screamed.
page 31

"i studied his face for features to identify the hairline, his awful mouth.Did he have scars?Tattoos?He had close-cropped hair.Although I didn't want to look at, him i had to" Erick Jaimes Page 15

2021-10-21 17:45:59 UTC

Valeria M. page:9

2021-10-21 18:20:28 UTC

a lonely person;"I didn't know many people in my neighborhood, although every day I passed their houses and their gardens"

Ashley page 1

2021-10-21 18:21:35 UTC

"Jennifer used to walk and had a lot on her mind"

Claudia

2021-10-21 19:51:49 UTC

"But thise hours were already part of something else that seemed to drift further and further out of reach"

David G

05davguz56163 — 2021-10-21 19:52:40 UTC

"I wished I could take off my skin and have them seal away in a plastic bag"
page 20
she felt upset that her body was violated

trey :page 22

2021-10-21 19:52:41 UTC

i looked at page and pages of eyes, ears, nose,chins. the part swan in my field of vision, forcing me to linger over the eyes of my rapist

Diana

2021-10-21 19:53:11 UTC

" I'm afraid of knives", i told him " i cant relax until you put it down. Can you put it in outside ? On my car ?" I lied. But it was all a twisted lie anyway.

Page 15 and 16

michelle

2021-10-21 19:53:30 UTC

"I felt like a dead girl, watching another strange man plumb my body, humiliate it.

page 20

oliver

2021-10-21 19:55:33 UTC

"and picked ronald cotten as the man who has brutally raped her eleven days before" pg 3

Isaiah

2021-10-22 14:12:23 UTC

"I hadn't been able to afford a direct flight to Atlanta". Chapter 1, Page 5

Desmon Thompson

2021-10-22 14:16:30 UTC

Justice is not always serived

Alexandra V

2021-10-22 14:21:03 UTC

"I used to walk three miles to campus and back every day from my apartment in Burlington. There weren`t any sidewalks on West From Street".

2021-10-22 17:42:55 UTC

always in the barber shop
"Chief Keef ain't 'bout this, Chief ain't 'bout that"
My boy a BD on Lamron and them
He, he, they say that fellow don't be putting in no work. page 43

Angel V

2021-10-22 17:43:46 UTC

I hated him for what he had done to us. "He's not going to get away with this"

Page 21

emma - page 27

2021-10-22 17:45:25 UTC

¨Eventually, Janet just got on the narrow bed with me and held me. Suddenly, my younger sister was my protector.¨

2021-10-22 17:45:47 UTC

We in the car, she don't live that far
Say she left her purse, and I ain't trippin'
You know Von a player, we can go there first
I bust the U, pulled up to her spot
She live by the park, it's gettin' dark
My Glock on my lap, I'm just thinkin' smart

micheal

2021-10-22 17:47:04 UTC

"he will not get away with this"page 21

Alexandra & Marie

2021-10-22 19:54:16 UTC

´´ Itś the same person you picked from the photos.

Jacqueline: page 19

2021-10-22 19:54:52 UTC

"Help me, please! I've been raped by a black man! He"s after me!"

page 27 anthony "paul took me to his moms house and i felt she had seen something private of me

2021-10-25 13:59:14 UTC

Kaitlyn

2021-10-25 13:59:14 UTC

"Yes, physically, she's OK."
page 22

Amy

2021-10-25 15:48:28 UTC

" The only way i could fight him was to outsmart him"
page 15

Mariano Mata page 31

2021-10-25 15:48:38 UTC

"Too frightened to cry, I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me."

Gizelle Page 23

2021-10-25 15:49:15 UTC

"After an hour & a half we had a face" , The polic were happy. "the other victim couldnt identify him" so i was determined to do a good job.

jacky velasquez page 33

2021-10-25 17:44:01 UTC

"you did great,Ms. Thomasson"

Help me please Ive been raped by a black man!Hes after me page 19

2021-10-25 17:44:12 UTC

Daniel c

River- page 20

2021-10-25 17:45:49 UTC

" I was no longer me. The girl in my mind, the picture- perfect student who would be getting married soon to Paul, was sucked down by that black hole, too."

Adriana page 63

2021-10-25 17:46:29 UTC

Focus. Breathe. Your life depends on it.

Ashley _ page #15

2021-10-25 17:46:35 UTC

"did he have scars?tattoos?"

Valeria Martinez page 5

2021-10-25 17:46:48 UTC

conquered they can never be whose spirits and whose souls are free

Erick Page 19

2021-10-25 18:21:12 UTC

"Help me, please! I've been raped by a black man! He's after me! I yelled.

Alexandra V/ pg: 15

2021-11-05 14:43:08 UTC

"I tried to look in his eyes. They were distinctly almond shaped, small, and set deep into his face. But he kept shifting his dark gaze from my eyes. He had high, brad cheekbones, and his mouth was not overly large. A faint shadow of hair framed his upper lip; it looked more like dirt than a mustache."

Raul Gonzalez 1A

2021-11-08 15:20:38 UTC

“I hated him for what he had done
to us. He's not going to get away
with this “

page 21

always in the barber shop"Chief Keef ain't 'bout this, Chief ain't 'bout that"My boy a BD on Lamron and themHe, he, they say that fellow don't be putting in no work. page 43

2021-11-11 15:08:29 UTC

always in the barber shop"Chief Keef ain't 'bout this, Chief ain't 'bout that"My boy a BD on Lamron and themHe, he, they say that fellow don't be putting in no work. page 43

2021-11-11 15:08:33 UTC

always in the barber shop"Chief Keef ain't 'bout this, Chief ain't 'bout that"My boy a BD on Lamron and themHe, he, they say that fellow don't be putting in no work. page 43

2021-11-11 15:09:23 UTC