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Brit Bennett
“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett
“Loretta said that, a couple months ago, Cindy asked her what assassination meant. She told her the truth, of course—that an assassination is when someone kills you to make a point. Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims. The important men were given televised funerals, public days of mourning. Their deaths inspired the creation of art and the destruction of cities. But unimportant men were killed to make the point that they were unimportant—that they were not even men—and the world continued on.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

Lara  Parker
“Sex was everywhere. And since I couldn’t have it, at least not in the way that I felt was expected of me at the time, I believed that no one would ever want to be with me, and no one would ever be able to love me. I felt broken and incomplete.”
Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

Lara  Parker
“Despite knowing for a fact that this pain and these illnesses are not my fault, that’s hard to remember on the bad days. I begin to blame myself and then feel ashamed that I caused someone else to pause their life to help me through something that my brain is telling me I caused.”
Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

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