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Model Home
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Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why nothing I do pleases her. Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why even though she’s never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will.
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“I'm not a person but a place where bad things happen.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Despite all the coddling denied me as a child, I never became the independent island of my mother's dreams. I'm a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth.”
― Model Home
― Model Home
“Grief’s iron grip never weakens. You just become accustomed to its hand around your throat, moving forward but never moving on.”
― Finding Grace
― Finding Grace
“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.”
― Model Home
― 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.”
― Model Home
as good, and everything Blackness does can be rationalized as preternaturally evil.”
― Model Home
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