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“I have often been told I am too much. Too loud, too sassy, too dark, too big. Too Black. And so even in loving you, I find myself overthinking and adjusting. Shape-shifting to be what you need me to be. Or what I think you need. When I first knew I loved you, I was afraid to say it. Didn’t want to come on too strong. Didn’t want to be too much.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“Life’s traumas and sagas and hurts and offenses and accomplishments and jubilees don’t wait their turn. All in the same parade they come marching.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“Don’t marry the man you can’t live without. Marry the man you can live with.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel

“I just—I didn’t start feeling the need to change myself or think of myself as less than until I met a world that told me that who I was and how I looked was not good enough.”
― Renée Watson, skin & bones: a novel