76 Quotes by Brit Bennett

An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in an outside way you couldn’t hide.

This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn’t imagine feeling satisfied.

Only two reasons a woman might have someone’s husband’s watch: She’s sleeping with him. She repairs watches.

Would they ever spend time like that together again? Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn’t over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around in our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.

It’s okay to not be a big man. It’s enough to be a good one.” It.

But Aubrey didn’t look scared. She seemed comfortable in her big sweater, a hand resting on her stomach, as if to remind herself that it was still there. She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn’t want was a haunting.

If you couldn’t know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around.