More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“I’m pressing niggas to hurry the fuck up so that I can get home to see you off to work. And the nights you’re off, a motherfucker better not even call my phone about business. All because I’m digging the way you make me feel and the way I feel about you. Maybe them ain’t the right words.” He chuckled. “A nigga with a textbook memory and I can’t even think of enough to describe what be going on in here? You see what you do to me, woman?”
“But I like it. I’m scared but I’ve never been a...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
“Almost five weeks. Girl, why did it take more than five minutes? What’s wrong with you? It only took me one minute and I knew I had fallen for Lawe. To make matters worse, I was at work, where I was supposed to not even notice men for real,”
“I knew I loved Milo the first time I saw him on campus. From the beginning, we were stuck to each other like bees on a honeycomb.”
“I fell in love with Malachi through dreams and visions of him that confused my head. However, they never confused my heart. And the first time I heard his voice on the phone, I was ready to toss my body in front of him and demand he love me back.”
“It doesn’t stop with them. They just find ways to get better, do better, love better, listen better… all the things. They are obsessed with progression. Not only in life but in love as well. That’s why I’m never coming up off my nigga.” “Me either,” Nature addressed. “I’ll go to my grave loving Malachi.”
“Just don’t beat him there or I’m going to resurrect your ass for him. I can’t see him go through that again.”
“Take me to the place my man has already prepared for me. I don’t care about the others. He knows me well enough now. I’m almost certain he chose nothing short of the best for me.”
“Shiiiiid. I know that’s right. Rep your man, girl. Call me later to tell me all about how much you love your new place, Glacier. I’m about to get my day started.”
“Ask for what? Working up the nerve for what? Have I not proven to you that you can have whatever you want, Glacier? If I have access to it, then so do you. For every dime I have, at this point, five cents of that shit belongs to you. You can have whatever you want, baby. You want a G-Wagon like Aeir’s, then let’s get you a fucking G-Wagon.”
“For what? A bear? Kiwi, you got to blast a nigga that comes your way. You gon’ fuck both y’all up with some mase.”
“Because my man is meeting me here soon. I don’t want you to end your night in one of the beds upstairs, so it’s best we not talk to one another.” “Damn, it’s like that?” “Yes.”
“My grandmother. I feel like I’ve dropped the ball. She requires commitment and I’ve always made time for her. As of late, I’ve been putting my weekly visits off. Every week, I say that I’ll go the following week. Then, I tell myself I’m too busy that week. Seeing how you and your family cherish Pops and see him so often has me slightly disgusted with myself.”
“My mother went from a completely normal woman, a fucking brilliant being, to losing her fucking mind. You think that shit was always pretty?”
“Exactly. We locked in, Kiwi. Your shit is my shit. The good, bad, and the ugly. Aight?”
Mommas was the total package and a nigga would have to put me in the mud before I came up off her. When I laid down to take my final rest, I wanted to sleep well knowing that I had everlasting love, endless top, and a piece of the ocean lying right beside me each day.
Discernment Verb The ability to judge, recognize, or identify something or someone. The ability to draw a conclusion or perceive without judgment to obtain spiritual, emotional, or physical guidance.
Synonyms include: judgment, discrimination, enlightenment, astuteness, shrewdness, erudition
“She fucking the boss now, dog. When you see her in the streets, look the other way and we gon’ be aight. No hard feelings. It’s love, all love, ’cause you the nigga I have to thank for giving my baby up. That extra key on me.” I chuckled. “And that still ain’t enough ’cause I could never repay a nigga for fucking up that bad.”
“Never feel threatened by a nigga in my presence. I will kill everything breathing in this bitch about you. Don’t ever get that twisted. For you, I will clear a whole town. For you, I will lay shit down. For you, I will wage war. For you, G, hell ain’t even the limit. Fix your face, that’s your past. I’m your future.”
Intently, I gazed in her direction as she followed Roulette out of the boardroom. Wedding bells and flowers and white gowns and rings clouded my head. Without a doubt, I knew one thing to be accurate in my future. I’ma marry the shit out of that fucking girl.
“If there’s nothing else you take from this conversation, step away knowing that you have absolutely nothing to fear when it comes to a Domino man exuding confidence and remaining in control of any situation they find themselves in. You’re not fucking on a bum, Glacier. You’re fucking on a boss. Act accordingly. Head high, chest out in every room you walk in, no matter who is in that motherfucker.”
“Listen to me, Mommas,” he gritted, back on his knees and in front of me. “I’m your first line of defense. I’m your emergency line. I’m the motherfucker you call to handle your shit. I’m your fucking police. Me. Call me! Don’t call them. Call me! They’re going to put that nigga in the cold cell; I’m going to put that bitch in the soil. I’m sparing nothing and no one behind you. Do you understand me?”
“I’m coming, Kiwi. I’m always gon’ come. Just call me. Just call me.”
“Restraining order, baby? The piece of paper that has spared not one woman’s life in situations like this? Nah. I’m the restrainer and the fucking order. They don’t protect y’all from shit, but I will.”
“When you up it, you gotta let that motherfucker rip, Kiwi.”
“Not right here, bro. As your big bro, I can’t let you do that to yourself, to us. We’ll get this nigga. I’ll make sure of it. On Momma. Nigga, on Daddy.”
“I’m nothing like them. I’m uncouthed. I have no fucking limit when it comes to Glacier. Fucking with her is like fucking with my money and I don’t play about my fucking money, bitch ass nigga. Consider yourself terminated. You have no traps. You have no white. You have no fucking crib. I burned that bitch to the ground. The smell is still lingering in the air this morning. Everything you’ve worked so hard to get, I’ve taken it. Everything being in business with me has helped you gain, I’ve taken it. You’re a bitch. A hoe ass nigga and that’s all you’ll ever be. I bailed you out, not because
...more
“No. Fuck the wall. That man violated me. He has to see me in these fucking streets. Point. Blank. Fuck you and anybody else who doesn’t understand that shit.” Spit flew from my mouth as I defended my decision. “I’ll sit behind twelve walls when it comes to her, Mercer. I don’t give a fuck.
“Glacier is a good fucking girl, dog. She stay to herself. She’s out the fucking way. She doesn’t bother nobody. She work and bring her ass home to me. She’s my responsibility and I’m going to dead any and everything that brings her harm.
“That’s on Momma, nigga. That’s on Daddy, nigga. If I don’t kill that bitch, then my name ain’t Makai motherfucking Domino. Pops ain’t raised a ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
“I don’t know. My head’s been in a different space. I haven’t talked to her. Respectful of her infectious and optimistic spirit, I don’t want to dump this fucked-up ass energy on her. She won’t understand. She won’t know how to handle it. She won’t recognize me.”
“But she’ll recognize your heart.”
“I don’t know about that, either. That motherfucker ice-cold right now. And her optimism, there’s no room for that right now. I don’t see one positive outcome in this situation. I just don’t. That’s too much of a burden for her ...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
“As green as she is, Glacier is no fool. She knows who she fell in love with. She knows what type of man she’s given her heart to.” Taking her words into consideration, I agreed.
“Glacier, I’m trying, aight? I’m trying to keep my head above water here but I am failing. I am becoming the man that I dread, for your sake alone and nothing else. I’m becoming the man I was before you stepped foot in my world. I’m becoming the man that was necessary to become the man that you fell in love with. And I can’t tell you if you’ll like that man—if you’ll love that man. But right now, I’m him, G.”
“I don’t care, Makai. All I care about is you. I’m here and I’m willing to meet you wherever you are, whenever you’re there. Just don’t ice up on me. Stay warm, just a little, for me.”
“Come here, Makai. Come to me. My security blanket has been snatched from around me. I’m feeling most vulnerable right now. I’m feeling exposed. Naked. A mess.”
I’m here, Mommas. Forever. For life. Always. In all ways. Any time. Every time. However. Whenever. Whatever. It didn’t matter. It never would.
“Makai, everything will be okay. As much as I’d love to spend my days getting on your nerves to no end, I can’t. I put off nursing school three times, wasting valuable years of my life. I don’t want to waste any more of them. I love being here. I love my patients. I love the staff. I love the atmosphere. It really gives me something to look forward to each day I’m on the schedule. Nursing brings me joy. I’d grow miserable staying home.”
“Mercer, that’s mine. If you take that opportunity away from me, consider us done.”
“I’m a lot of things, but a hoe ass nigga ain’t one. I have no intention of fucking you over. But you won’t stop me from looking out for you. It’s your job to protect your girl, but it’s my job to protect you. Ima do that to the fullest. I don’t give a fuck how that makes you feel, either.”
“Nigga, you think ’cause your neck swollen and your chest implants are inflated, you can bully a nigga or some shit? My pistol will penetrate them dragon scales on your arm, my boy. That’s make believe, you gon’ feel every bullet.”
Glacier was easily my addiction. Ridding the world of anything that brought her discomfort was my duty. In every area of her life, I wanted her happy, healthy, and at peace. Nothing else mattered to me when she was involved. Her love overruled every aspect of my life. Not even money could fuck with Mommas. I had enough of that shit already. I hadn’t had enough of her yet.
“Marry me, Mommas,” I begged. “Have my babies. Please, marry me. Be mine forever.”
“I’m already yours forever.”
“I’ll marry you a hundred times over. I love you so much.”
“Because what will it change? Real shit. How will marriage benefit either of us more than our current arrangement? Honestly. Tell me. Think of one thing aside from ‘papers’ motherfuckers love to say they have on a person as if they’re an object or some shit?”
“Ain’t shit gon’ come to mind, so you might as well stop straining your fried-ass brain to think. If I leave today, everything goes to Kleu. If I were to fall into a coma today, Kleu has the power of attorney. And that shit works both ways. It won’t make me love her ass any differently. Ya feel me?
“That girl got my whole fucking chest. Fuck my heart. What are we missing? She’s got a ring on her finger. She’s in a fat crib. Endless funds. A nigga that loves and worships the ground she walks on. What more is there to give her besides some paperwork? I think motherfuckers crazy for putting papers on a relationship and using it as a means to confirm a bond.