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Don’t marry the man you can’t live without. Marry the man you can live with.
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“understand that. Want older boys not to look at her with wanton gazes, want White teachers to hear the tenor of her voice and not mistake it for attitude or sass, want her curiosity to be seen as innocent as it is. Want her purity protected. Want her girlhood preserved.”
― skin & bones: a novel
― skin & bones: a novel
“Life’s traumas and sagas and hurts and offenses and accomplishments and jubilees don’t wait their turn. All in the same parade they come marching.”
― skin & bones: a novel
― skin & bones: a novel
“I am the harvest of my ancestors.”
― skin & bones: a novel
― skin & bones: a novel
“Don’t marry the man you can’t live without. Marry the man you can live with.”
― skin & bones: a novel
― skin & bones: a novel
“I just—I didn’t start feeling the need to change myself or think of myself as less than until I met a world that told me that who I was and how I looked was not good enough.”
― skin & bones: a novel
― skin & bones: a novel
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