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“Morgan gives me a dirty look. I know that she resents me and resents being here. She thinks I don’t care. But it’s not that; it’s that there’s so very much to care about, so much to feel, and instead of trying to sort out what’s in my head, sometimes I don’t want to feel any of it at all.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“We are all just ghosts of the people we hoped that we were and counterfeit replicas of the people we wanted to be.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“On Friday nights, before I got old enough to make bad decisions at other people’s houses, I used to sit with Lucia as she got ready to make hers.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who do not need help.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey