“She always felt nervous around strange men, even though she’d known the man who’d hurt her. If a man who knew you… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“but somehow, his seeing her afraid was an intimacy she could not bear.” — Brit Bennett Fear Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?” — Brit Bennett First home Copy Share Image
“Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it… — Brit Bennett Friendship Copy Share Image
“These were the moments when adulthood was formed, not a birthday but the realization that she was now the one pouring a… — Brit Bennett Children Copy Share Image
“Would they ever spend time like that together again? Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn’t over yet or did… — Brit Bennett End time Copy Share Image
“magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn’t want was a haunting.” — Brit Bennett Miracles Copy Share Image
“After all, before you could play a song, you had to learn each note of the scale. A newspaper article was made… — Brit Bennett American-girl Copy Share Image
“Now they were slow and deliberate, the way hurt people loved, stretching carefully just to see how far their damaged muscles could… — Brit Bennett Hurt People Copy Share Image
“that type of secret, although, we have to admit, it had felt different. Tasted different too. All good secrets have a taste… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with you brothas,” Bill said. “You got lazy. You know why? Because you know these young sistas will pick… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“She felt the sly type of racism here, longer waits for tables, white girls who expected her to walk on the slushy… — Brit Bennett Black girl Copy Share Image
“Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella… — Brit Bennett Adolescence Copy Share Image
“She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.” — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“it scared her, how you could return home in a different body, how something big could be happening inside you and no… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in a way that you couldn't hide.” — Brit Bennett Emotional pain Copy Share Image
“Could you ever truly unlove a child, even one you never knew? Or did that love transform into something else?” — Brit Bennett Change Copy Share Image
“Soft things can take a beating. But you push somethin’ hard a little bit and it shatters. You gotta be a soft… — Brit Bennett Hard love Copy Share Image
“Maybe the beach was a more natural place to leave a baby you couldn't care for. Nestle him in the sand and… — Brit Bennett First home Copy Share Image
“He liked to refer to his whiteness the way all white liberals did: only acknowledging it when he felt oppressed by it,… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“A soft death can be swallowed with Called home to be with the Lord or We'll see her again in glory ,… — Brit Bennett Death Copy Share Image
