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"...'I thought I was tough. A lot of guys thought they were even tougher.'...'I don't think we held a candle to you.'

'I'm not brave,' I said, smiling despite myself. 'Bravery implies I had a choice. I'm just me, you know?'"

"I watched the changing scenery of this place where I was born that had been telling me it hated me for as long as I could remember and gave in to the static behind my eyes."

"I remembered Mom telling me how frightening men were, all men really, how helpless it often felt to be a woman among men, and for the first time I understood what she meant."

Wait...does this imply it was girls who beat her up? Not impossible, I'm just wondering.

"'So I shouldn't feel guilty?'
''Course you should!' she said with a broad smile. 'You got any idea what you've done to me? Between the labor pain and the stretch marks and the loans I had to take out for this surgery, you've bled me dry!'"

"'Andrew Hardy was gonna die one way or the other, and one of the choices gave me a daughter in exchange while the other left me with no one.'"

Dark YA show me the black female character who isn't either "wise" or comedic relief?

"'You know walls are there for a reason though, right?...They keep things from falling apart.'"

"I sat at the bar in the Sartoris Diner and read Abasalom, Absalom! for class, trying to figure out which character disgusted me the most." A mood

Amanda's mom is the goat