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Brit Bennett quotes: In a way, subtle racism was worse because it made you feel crazy. You were always left wondering, was that actually racist? Had you just imagined it?

In a way, subtle racism was worse because it made you feel crazy. You were always left wondering, was that actually racist? Had you just imagined it?

Brit Bennett quotes: The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.

The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.

Brit Bennett quotes: she imagined her life caught between his teeth, her trusting him not to bite. Two

she imagined her life caught between his teeth, her trusting him not to bite. Two

Brit Bennett quotes: Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip. -

Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip. -

Brit Bennett quotes: She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't want was a haunting.

She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't want was a haunting.

Brit Bennett quotes: Maybe you didn't know who you would be in the world. Maybe you were a different person everywhere you lived. "Tell

Maybe you didn't know who you would be in the world. Maybe you were a different person everywhere you lived. "Tell

Brit Bennett quotes: Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. "I'm

Poorness never left you, she told him. It was a hunger that embedded itself into your bones. It starved you, even when you were full. "I'm

Brit Bennett quotes: If a man who knew you could hurt you, who knew what a man who didn't might do? "I'm

If a man who knew you could hurt you, who knew what a man who didn't might do? "I'm

Brit Bennett quotes: She'd already learned that pretty exposes you and pretty hides you and like most girls, she hadn't yet learned how to navigate the difference.

She'd already learned that pretty exposes you and pretty hides you and like most girls, she hadn't yet learned how to navigate the difference.

Brit Bennett quotes: but it scared her, how you could return home in a different body, how something big could be happening inside you and no one even knew it. Her

but it scared her, how you could return home in a different body, how something big could be happening inside you and no one even knew it. Her

Brit Bennett quotes: An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in an outside way you couldn't hide.

An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in an outside way you couldn't hide.

Brit Bennett quotes: She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.

She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.

Brit Bennett quotes: niceness was something anyone could be, whether they meant it or not. But goodness was another thing altogether.

niceness was something anyone could be, whether they meant it or not. But goodness was another thing altogether.

Brit Bennett quotes: Her father propped his sadness on a pew, but she put her sad in places no one could see.

Her father propped his sadness on a pew, but she put her sad in places no one could see.

Brit Bennett quotes: A pretty black woman living as fine as any white woman. What did she have to complain about? -

A pretty black woman living as fine as any white woman. What did she have to complain about? -

Brit Bennett quotes: Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.

Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.

Brit Bennett quotes: Bones, like anything else, strong until they weren't.

Bones, like anything else, strong until they weren't.

Brit Bennett quotes: 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?

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?

Brit Bennett quotes: Sometimes she wondered if she only loved him when it was cold, in the middle of winter when everything was dead. -

Sometimes she wondered if she only loved him when it was cold, in the middle of winter when everything was dead. -

Brit Bennett quotes: You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don't last.

You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don't last.

Brit Bennett quotes: sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying.

sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying.

Brit Bennett quotes: Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around.

Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around.

Brit Bennett quotes: Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?