"Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling."
"it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft."
"He needs "space"and "time,"as if this were physics and not a human relationship."
"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."
"...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?"
"Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."