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“My heart is broken and soft, and I am plain again. I have no friends in the city. I used to think maybe i wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“If I could go back, I’d do everything different.” “Like what?” she said. “Oh, everything.” He turned back to the mirror. “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

“She would look at him and forget that there had ever been a time he’d hidden from her. He unzipped her funeral dress, folding it neatly on a rock, and they waded into the cold water, squealing, water inching up their thighs. This river, like all rivers, remembered its course. They floated under the leafy canopy of trees, begging to forget.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half