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“asked me if I loved him.  Should’ve told him the truth. That I ain’t know enough about myself to love anybody. That I wasn’t even sure I had it in me. Maybe folks were born with a specific reserve of love inside them and maybe mine was all used up. But instead of saying any of that I just said, “’Of course I do.”
― D. Bryant Simmons, How to Knock a Bravebird from Her Perch: The First Novel in the Morrow Girls Series

“I'd never told a lie before in my life. Not one that I hadn't convinced myself was the truth first.”
― D. Bryant Simmons, How to Knock a Bravebird from Her Perch