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“We have even believed, leaping from slave ships,
that the deep ocean waters would return us to freedom by traveling back to the past, before the vicious trade in flesh. In the successive waves of reckonings through the steady meanness of life, we have relied upon a blues-soaked sensibility: sustaining, being, and becoming ourselves.”

Yeah … need to finish this book before the year ends.

"I love you," Buttercup said. "I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. 💀

Only 14 pages in and this book ain’t holding nothing back … at all

The writing is so good. My heart is aching for Cherry. ☹️