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“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“All of her blessings had come so easily in the beginning of her life, and she'd spent the back half losing them all.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“The key to staying lost was to never love anything.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keeping banging your shins on the table corners.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“TV loves a black woman judge,” Pam told her. “It’s funny—can you imagine what this world would look like if we decided what’s fair?”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“The world worked differently than he’d ever imagined. People you loved could leave and there was nothing you could do about it. Once he’d grasped that, the inevitability of leaving, he became a little older in his own eyes.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You shouldn’t tell people the truth because you want to hurt them. You should tell them because they want to know it. And I think you want to know now.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“what was the point of sharing good news with someone who couldn’t be happy for you?”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half