Sophia

“People lived in bodies that were largely unknowable. Some things you could never learn about yourself—some things nobody could learn about you until after you died.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Desiree saw patterns that most people couldn't. She could read a person's life off his fingertips. During training, she'd practice reading her own fingertips, those intricate designs that marked her as unique. Stella had a scar on her left index finger from when she'd cut herself with a knife, one of the many ways that their fingerprints were different.

Sometimes, who you were came down to the small things.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“At night, Desiree held her daughter and told her stories about her own childhood. At first she said, I have a sister named Stella, then, you have an aunt, then, once upon a time, a girl named Stella lived here.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“There could have been fifty pairs of twins sitting at that dinner table, a seat for each person they had been since they's spoken last: a battered wife and a bored one, a waitress and a professor, each woman seated next to a stranger. Instead, there were only the twins, Early sitting between them. He felt, watching Stella primly cut her fish, that he didn't know Desiree at all, that maybe it was impossible to know one without the other.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half