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“If we become the whitest versions of ourselves, fit into the ideal of the quiet, hardworking model minority, and distance ourselves as much as we can from Blackness, we will be safe.”

God makes the home for something first before he makes the thing. Not the fish first but the sea. Not the bird first but the sky. Not the human first

“The British had come for the camp and bombed it hell. To wipe out any way for the Japanese to transport supplies.
And yet the only men who lay on the grown in piles of ash and limbs were conscripted boy who had against the odds survived the Japanese torture only to die at the hands of their supposed saviors.”

“enslavement did not just mean different colored people buying and selling each other. Your enemy looking like you, recognizing yourself in your enemy made it so much worse because it mirrored back to you all the darkness you held”

Cecily wondered at the damage that would do to one's soul, to allow others to chip away at you, past the layers of defense, to gain acceptance.

Twisty book about childhood friendships and secrets. Betrayal and commitments.