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You ever finish a book and then want to message the author and ask if they’re okay? When I say this book was DARK. I mean DARK DARK. Dark and Spicy!! It was a great read!! Definitely a roller coaster of emotions. Katrina Medina and Nowhere Eternity, the audiobook narrators, were PHENOMENAL at bringing the characters to life!!

“I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding.”

“Well, we are the stars,” Joan said. “And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at parts of who you once were, who you may one day be.”

“My dad was 73 when I was born and my mom was 49.”

“D*mn!” *In my Kevin Hart voice*

“I released a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding.”

“This kiss, this this, this us, tasted like indulgence and sustenance. Our tongues moved like we were each other’s rice and wine, twirled with the ease of drunken, fed hips. In the kiss, I tasted him and I tasted me and I tasted what we were and what we could be. It tasted like honey and spice”

“ I released the breath I hadn’t even known I’d been holding”

“That’s you, Sara. You took a hit, it knocked you off your axis, but you keep spinning no matter what.”

“Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”

“I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is.”

“But now, you’re telling me it’s still not there — it’s still not the right time. You couldn’t be with me when you were broken, and now that you’re standing on your own, you still can’t be with me. So, if I can’t have you at your worst, and I can’t have you at your best, then when do I get you, B? When does the timing line up for you to stop fighting what we have between us and just let me in?”

“Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me.
And she had the audacity to be mediocre.”

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

“Sister, don’t spend too much time on tears. The more you cry, the less you pee and peeing is more important.”

“African and Southern Black American women can exude a charm which acts as a narcotic on their targets.”

“You are the love of your life. And the life you create—full of meaningful relationships, joy, and fulfillment—begins with how you choose to love yourself.”

“Sometimes in life, the most loving thing you can do is to stop fixing, start accepting, be more loving, and focus on what you can control.”

“And when someone drifts away, or the energy feels off, do not make them your enemy. You can tell when a friendship is forced, and the energy is changing, because it starts to drain you. Conversations feel awkward. You’ll start to feel like something is off or conversations are forced. Trust that feeling.”

“…being happier requires you to allow yourself to be happier”

“Grief settles. It’s not something you overcome. It’s something that you live with. You adapt to it. Nothing about you is who you were.”

Giving blowjobs isn’t usually my favorite thing—like, why have a dick in your mouth when you could be devouring a burrito?

“My vagina has turned into a deserted playground, with rusty rides and no visitors in sight.”

“Oh, thanks for the mansplanation. How about I womansplain where you can stick your condescending attitude? Here’s a hint: It starts with ‘up’ and ends with ‘your ass.’”

“When fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat in 1955, she, too, was arrested before Rosa Parks. The NAACP opted not to bring a suit on her behalf because she was pregnant and unwed, and the organization feared the stigma that might incur. For them, Rosa Parks, who was forty-two, married, and a veteran activist, seemed like a better choice…”

“Be careful of that word ‘friend.’ It’s often used interchangeably with the word ‘enemy.”

“I’m an acquired taste. If you don’t like me, acquire some taste!”

“Don’t check for me unless you got a check for me.”

“Don’t come for me, unless I twirl for you.”

“Who gon’ check me, boo?”