In so many ways my entire career has been about untangling the knots that society tangles itself in as we futilely attempt to separate the us from the them.
Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint.
They don’t want to wait their turn. They don’t want to work their way up the ladder. They want what they want now.
This is my favorite part about brioche. The dough doesn’t quite know what to do with all that butter, and begins to come apart. But with enough time, it manages to bring itself back to center, to a satin consistency. I.
He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.
It’s almost as if I had to stop running in order to see myself clearly, and what I see is a person who’s been driving toward a goal for so long she can’t remember why she set it in the first place.
You know what my father used to say? True love is like bread. It needs the right ingredients, a little heat, and some magic to rise.
I exist,” he said softly.
You can love a pet more than you love some people,” I say suddenly, surprising even myself. Everyone turns, because unlike the others, I hardly ever draw attention to myself by volunteering information. “It doesn’t matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.
Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids – they weren’t her friends. Popular kids didn’t really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust – at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.
The thing about death, Lacy knew, was that it robbed you of your vocabulary for comfort.
The medicinal power of honey is well documented – it’s antibacterial, so has been used in treating wounds. In dressings, it helps clean pus or dead tissue, suppresses inflammation, and promotes new skin growth. A 2007 study at Penn State suggests that it is more effective than dextromethorphan in treating a cough. Irish labs have shown that it combats MRSA infections. Manuka honey kills the bacteria that cause ulcers and is used to preserve corneas for transplants.
Where is the line between keeping something private, and being dishonest?
All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more. “Even walking can be dangerous. Just being can be dangerous, if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Grief, it turns out, is a lot like a one-sided video conversation on an iPad. It’s the call with no response, the echo of affection, the shadow cast by love. But just because you can’t see it anymore doesn’t make it any less real.
Children didn’t make their own mistakes. They plunged into the pits they’d been led to by their parents.
I also know that when you’re in the thick of living your life, you don’t often get to push pause and reflect on it. It’s just really hard to sit in the moment, and not worry if pause is going to turn into stop.
Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.
If you don’t want someone to change your life for you, you’ve got to change it yourself.
I hated him. Not for fooling me into trusting him, or even for beating me. But because he made me lose the compassion I had for the enemy.