Gaia

“But maybe in those seven minutes they'd first been apart, they'd each lived a lifetime, setting out their separate paths. Each discovering who she might be.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I will probably be caught again, because that’s what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more.” He shrugged. “Maybe I will not be caught again, though.” He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. “I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason.” “What is it, Butcher?” “Because I am,” he said softly, “and you are.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

“She’d tell her because, in spite of everything, Loretta was her only friend in the world. Because she knew that, if it came down to her word versus Loretta’s, she would always be believed. And knowing this, she felt, for the first time, truly white.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“She could think of nothing more horrifying than not being able to hide what she wanted.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half