Mina

“When we first heard, we thought it might be that type of secret, although, we have to admit, it had felt different. Tasted different too. All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season. But we didn’t.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“It’s exciting, loving someone who can never love you back. Freeing, in its own way.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“You didn’t know how desperate you could be until you were.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“she hasn’t yet learned the mathematics of grief. The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers