More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Are you gonna get ready for bed or just stand there like Helen Keller havin a wet-dream?”
The fact is, sometimes we do have to be cruel to be kind—like a doctor givin a shot to a child even though he knows the child will cry and not understand.
It’s scary to know you can be as hard as you need to be, and never hesitate before or look back afterward and question what you did.
But runnin won’t solve your problems if you’ve been hurt bad enough—wherever you run, you take your head n your heart with you, after all—and
A person can always find somethin to be grateful for, no matter how dark things get,
“Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive,” she says. “Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
