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Why the sudden change from Reina?

what would be something worse than lust?

This book has a lot of movement; physically, narratively and literally. In the kitchen. In the club. In NY. In LA. It’s a lot to keep up with. Almost like trying to keep up with the moves your friends are making over the years.

so there’s more than a few folks that pity Desiree…Nakiah’s mother included

revisionist history, for sure!

“My promise to you, not that I owe you any promises, is to continue to be as personal as I feel as possible and as private as I feel is necessary.”

“Were three friends enough to fill the void a sister left if one of them up and left, too?”

no longer being close to your only sister and living relative has to hurt

LOL! Desiree actually does have some humor

an instructional song from Atlanta? DJ Unk 2 Step would be my guess LOL

“…but she wasn’t a liar, lies being too tiresome to keep track of and keep up.”

a funny description for music at the time

“"How was LA?" Monique asked.
"It was fine. Weird, but fine."
"Weird like how? You feeling bad about selling the house?" How to not dampen the mood?
"I mean... at this point I'm indifferent about selling it," Desiree said.
Not true, but weren't indifference and ambivalence cousins of a kind? "LA is weird in general. I don't know."

LA is a ghost town to her now…

“In books, characters often felt in a estranged or dead person’s presence at places where the two of them shared memories, but this never happened for Desiree, not for the dead and not for the living. She never felt presence, only absence. She knew where Danielle was, or thought she knew, but this did not stop Desiree from sensing that the loss of Danielle was almost akin to death.”

“$950,093” (I can’t help but notice that that’s kinda my birthday… if I was my grandma, I’d play the number right now lol). But, it really isn’t that much even if Desiree lived 40 more years —- that’s only $24k/year.

January is in a bad spot… sadness recognize(d) sadness in Desiree. “It was as if the entire world conspired to provoke her.” — or she’s unhappy herself and easily provoked

🪄 “Desiree beaming in a strappy tangerine two-piece next to a palm tree that was nearly parallel to the ground, its roots holding on thanks to some sort of tropical magic.”

This was a fun one! I almost chose Issa Rae, but who else could I write a short, fascinating essay about other than Beyonce herself?!

“The hardest thing about being a black woman attracted to men is convincing yourself you deserve better than just a 'good guy' with a 'good job? 'Stable' is not a personality!"

2 min from finishing my listening of this awful book and I’m so happy that I am just now noticing that the narrator speaks as if there’s spit in her mouth… real Noreaga-like. 🥴🥴🥴

we get it! you hate your friend’s wife! Jessuussss, the repetitiveness is annoying.

ugh! her husband is so obnoxious about how much money he has!

This tension between Timmy and such and such as husband, I can’t even recall her name because all I know is that she’s been talking about her clingy best friend and sister-in-law so far, it’s already repetitive. Are they fucking or not?

Wait! I didn’t realize Aunt Lois was Cora’s mom’s sister

“ each step brings her closer to the answer. Delilah wanted her to see, and each steps she wants to know less and less. As long as Cora doesn’t know, she can keep all the fear and rage trapped inside the cage of her heart, doesn’t have to decide what to do with it. Because when it’s gone, the last piece of Delilah will be gone too”

It feels extremely eerie, considering what happened w/Uncle Sherrod last night, to read a line, such as:

“Delilah didn’t know she was gonna die. It’s not something people know, ahead of time, for the most part. Yet Cora feels like she’s tight rope, walking on the edge of something, especially when her breath comes tight and she sees shapes of light dancing in the corner of her eyes.“

🪄⚡️ on Harry Potter’s birthday?!

“ Luckily, they are very good at cleaning.”

“Never wanted to trust in something beyond herself? Cora would make the perfect member of any religion, the kind of person who doesn't want to decide, who wants a textbook to tell her what to do. But Cora has always kept that kind of unwavering trust reserved…. Delilah has always been Cora's God...Even now, with Delilah dragged down to some sort of hell, or purgatory, Cora is still following her.”