Bonnie

“But even here, where nobody married dark, you were still colored and that meant that white men could kill you for refusing to die.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn’t like about Julia was her independence.”
― Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn

“think that for others in my family, who didn’t see him at the end, who didn’t witness his slow decline, he may live intact in memory, much as he was before his illness. I hope so. But that isn’t true for me. It was in part to exorcise my final haunting images of my father that I wanted to look at, to explain, the way he fragmented and lost himself in his illness; and who he was before”
― Sue Miller, The Story of My Father: A Memoir

“But the passe blanc were a mystery. You could never meet one who’d passed over undetected, the same way you’d never know someone who successfully faked her own death; the act could only be successful if no one ever discovered it was a ruse.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half