Sophie

“Won’t be easy,” he said. “Wasn’t easy for me. You know a man smacked me once at church? Right on the back of my neck. All because I put my finger in the holy water before his wife. Like I ruined it somehow. I thought my uncle was gonna stick up for me. I don’t know why, I just thought. But he told the man sorry like I done somethin wrong.”
― 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

“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Her whole life, in fact, had been a gift of good fortune—she had been given whiteness. Blonde hair, a pretty face, a nice figure, a rich father. She’d sobbed out of speeding tickets, flirted her way to endless second chances. Her whole life, a bounty of gifts she hadn’t deserved.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half