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Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.”
“Grace costs you nothing. My grandma used to say it. She especially liked to say it to herself when I was being a little shit.”
Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”
Give up some of your fucks and see how much easier things are. You’re just spending all your time trying to please everyone else, and it’s making you miserable.”
I wondered how many of the little trinkets I’d found in Aunt Lil’s box were like this. The remnants of small moments in her life that stayed with her forever. Proof of a thumbprint on her soul.
Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.
There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.
“His nonnegotiable…” “Yeah. The one thing he couldn’t live without. Everything else was just everything else.”
I knew from experience that sometimes when the wake-up call is big enough, you do, in fact, wake up.
