Teodora

“How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“All of her blessings had come so easily in the beginning of her life, and she'd spent the back half losing them all.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“The truth was dawning on me of how terrifying it was not to be numb, but to be aware, to have facts, retain facts, be adult.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman