Brit Bennett

Quotes

• “Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose in pictures with her ...”
• “We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, face...”
• “It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside ...”
• “The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until ...”
• “Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, th...”