Emotional pain Quote by Brit Bennett

““An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in a way that you couldn't hide.””

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“but somehow, his seeing her afraid was an intimacy she could not bear.”

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“If you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?”

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“Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?”

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“These were the moments when adulthood was formed, not a birthday but the realization that she was now the one pouring a handful of…

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“Would they ever spend time like that together again? Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn’t over yet or did the fact…

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“magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn’t want was a haunting.”

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“After all, before you could play a song, you had to learn each note of the scale. A newspaper article was made up of…

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“Now they were slow and deliberate, the way hurt people loved, stretching carefully just to see how far their damaged muscles could go.”

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“that type of secret, although, we have to admit, it had felt different. Tasted different too. All good secrets have a taste before you…

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“That’s the problem with you brothas,” Bill said. “You got lazy. You know why? Because you know these young sistas will pick up the…

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“She felt the sly type of racism here, longer waits for tables, white girls who expected her to walk on the slushy part of…

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“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our capacity to love, and to be loved.”

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