Sophie

“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“She never felt darker than when she was running, and at the same time, she never felt less black, less anything.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You could never quite get used to loneliness; every time she thought she had, she sank further into it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“A body could be labeled but a person couldn’t, and the difference between the two depended on that muscle in your chest. That beloved organ, not sentient, not aware, not feeling, just pumping along, keeping you alive.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half