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“You’re also a grown ass man,” Clinton said. “I want to be your partner through it all.
“This is my fucking wife.
“These girls finna act a plum fool over this lil dance.”
“Lack of experience? Yes, a virgin, no. I’ve had sex a few times. I just don’t think about that shit like y'all hoes do, clearly.”
“Move in on me?!” Maggie and I repeated
at the same time before collapsing into one another with laughter.
You say your name three times and state the things you want…Show me the man who has my soul and heart. Who carries the weight of my problems and has the answer to my questions.
Then poof!”
Quan, the cat became Quan the nymph.
“We don’t call it a campus. That’s for those white folks and their white schools. We call it The Grounds. These Grounds are sacred and for many people, it's considered home.
“When this sickness turns into desperation…and addiction, this is what happens,”
You talk to anyone else in that…family, they’ll die.” “I––” “Die,” he repeated. “Mama did right by keeping me in this house and waiting on you so I can take care of you. So I can see what exactly this…so called family did and what they allowed to happen by the hands of…Aria, you said? Her name is Aria?” “Draco–––” “She will die.”
“Life is going to continue to throw things at you…You don’t have to catch every fucking thing, you understand? Carry only what you can handle, the rest of it? Let it go. Everything doesn't have to be a cat and mouse game. Everybody don’t have to fuck with you because you say so. Everything doesn't have to be your way because it’s you. What’s meant for you will be for you and it will just make sense. It will click, you understand?”

