Steve

“He’s not coming, baby,” the nurse said. “Do you have someone else to call?” Nadia glanced up, startled by the nurse’s confidence that Luke would not show, but even more jolted by her use of the word baby. A cotton-soft baby that seemed to surprise the nurse herself, like it had tripped off her tongue. Just like how after the surgery, in her delirium, Nadia had looked into the nurse’s blurred face and said “Mommy?” with such sweetness, the nurse had almost answered yes.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“No wires tender even as nerves
can transmit the impact of
our seasons, our catastrophes
while we are closed inside them”
― Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country

“It’s like living near a bakery but never eating any bread. Every day you walk the streets, the smell of it in your nose, your stomach growling, but no matter how many corners you turn, you can never enter the actual store. The”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. “I’m”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers