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“Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack,”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who do not need help.”
― Josiah Hartley, The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

“My parents weren’t bad people, they were just the victims of victims—my made-up term for the people who are recyclers of their own emotional damage.”
― Christopher Harlan, The Sick Parents Club

“Morgan gives me a dirty look. I know that she resents me and resents being here. She thinks I don’t care. But it’s not that; it’s that there’s so very much to care about, so much to feel, and instead of trying to sort out what’s in my head, sometimes I don’t want to feel any of it at all.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids