fast Quotes

“When you love someone, you love them for who they are. When you have love for someone, you love what they can do for you.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“So, if I was your girlfriend, would you keep choosing me?” Shaun kissed the sensitive skin behind my left ear, and then in it he whispered, “I will always choose you.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I know a lie when I hear one. Especially when white folks try it. White folks don’t know how to lie.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“People lie. People pretend. People don’t always make much sense.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Sometimes I felt like Caprice’s sadness was always deeper than it should’ve been, like everything hit her twice as hard as it did everybody else. To look at her sometimes was to look directly at pain.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“In life, there are certain things that you just need. I needed food to eat. I needed air to breathe. I needed water to drink. And I needed Caprice.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Somebody somewhere once said, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ My only question to that has always been… how much time?”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Love is amazing. Love is a powerful thing to get to experience. Love keeps your body warm when the September night air breezes past your skin. Love is like no other emotion. Unmatched in every aspect. You don’t know what it truly means to be real until you’ve been in love.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“First of all,” Shaun started matter-of-factly, “that’s not how love works. And second, even if that was how love worked, you would still deserve it. You would still deserve mine.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Sometimes you can fool yourself into thinking you’re “over” something. Then you catch yourself saying things, doing things, avoiding things, realizing you never truly got over anything. You just set new boundaries so that the same thing couldn’t happen to you twice.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I loved on every inch of her skin, hoping to eclipse every fear, every memory, every nightmare. I couldn’t fix the past, but I could promise her a happier future.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“On me, I had twenty-six teeth in my mouth, three hundred sixty-one eyelash hairs, and eleven fading bruises on my body.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“pain is unavoidable, and you’d live a very meaningless life trying to avoid it.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Caprice was also the daughter of my mother’s childhood best friend, Alice Latimore.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I might’ve been imagining this, but when I told Shaun I was already on the pill, he almost seemed disappointed… Like he had been trying to get me pregnant.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Of course, I anticipated the waterworks, so I already had a small pack of tissues in my pocket.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“That sorry excuse for a phone call had me aggravated for the remainder of my night.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Because ain’t nothin’ happen to Kahfi. He got to sit everything out. He watched it all from above. He didn’t feel anything. He went to sleep.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“That is, until I realized I needed to have a kid.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“So, he’s re-proposing, and I’m setting it up.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“She’s either leaving with me quietly, or I can turn in every bit of evidence I have on this family.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“He leaned over the car’s center console, pressing a kiss onto my cheek before whispering, “I told you those old shoes wouldn’t make it to this Friday.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Tell the truth, Caprice. Say he never touched you.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“She squinted. “Alabama?”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Keep calling me daddy, Caprice,” while he was scratching his privates. He must’ve been itchy or something. “Keep calling me daddy. Say it. Call me daddy. Say daddy.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Sometimes you can fool yourself into thinking you’re “over” something. Then you catch yourself saying things, doing things, avoiding things, realizing you never truly got over anything. You just set new boundaries so that the same thing couldn’t happen to you twice. Time doesn’t heal most wounds. If you’re lucky, time distracts you long enough so that you can forget.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“Imagine if you bought a doughnut, and then when you unwrapped it, you saw that someone else took two big ass bites out of it. That’s gross, right?”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I didn’t want them to ever worry about whether their parents were staying together.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“That nigga pistol whipped me to sleep.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I wished for the same thing I always wished for. Happiness.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast