76 Quotes by Brit Bennett

A body could be labeled but a person couldn’t, and the difference between the two depended on that muscle in your chest. That beloved organ, not sentient, not aware, not feeling, just pumping along, keeping you alive.

She refused to let him bury his guilt in her. She would not be a burying place for any man again.

There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.

Soft things can take a beating. But you push somethin’ hard a little bit and it shatters. You gotta be a soft thing in love. Hard love don’t last.

People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.

You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.

How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?

This big ol’ world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.

You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.