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“It made me seethe, hang up the phone, to know her life was going on as normal without her children-like we'd never been born, like the house never touched her the way it touched us.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“Mother forgot her own advice. She'd told me that white supremacy operates under a logic in which everything whiteness does can be rationalized
as good, and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternaturally evil.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“The kids who grow up fine do so because of us, or despite us.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“My phone dings, finally, and I slide it out of my torn pocket, ready to receive whatever comfort, whatever regurgitated worm flesh, my sisters have to feed me in this moment of obvious catastrophe. Their words will be derisory and remind me only that I am alone, but they will provide fuel for my self-pity, which is its own comfort.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home