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“You should expect that I’m going to spoil you and take care of you and remind you every day that I may not deserve you, but I’m never letting you go.”
“Fair?” Zach said. “Is that what matters now? You used to say you wanted us to be happy, but that’s only true when we do what you want us to do.”
― Night Road
― Night Road
“The man who shows up on holidays resembles my brother, and sometimes can access the emotion and memory of who he once was, but mostly, he is the man he decided to become so that he could stay alive.”
― Last Summer on State Street
― Last Summer on State Street
“Mama slept through the whole night. Maybe, as a mom, she had heavier guilt and stress about losing Meechie, and it dragged her down into a deep slumber.”
― Last Summer on State Street
― Last Summer on State Street
“The boys who done already made a plan for they lives, they do better than the ones who get invited into somebody else’s.”
― Last Summer on State Street
― Last Summer on State Street
“Or maybe that wasn’t true. Maybe she knew now what she hadn’t known before: she wasn’t kind and caring and compassionate and even-tempered. She was angry and weak and even a little vindictive. Most of all, she was a bad mother.”
― Night Road
― Night Road
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