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Top 400 Brit Bennett Quotes (2024 Update)
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Brit Bennett Quote: “You couldn’t separate the shame from being caught doing something from the shame of the act itself.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Not all at once, but slowly, her memories disintegrating. Eventually remembering turned into imagining. How slight the difference was between the two.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Her daughter felt like a stranger, and maybe, if she was still in Mallard, she would be amused by all the ways that they were different. By all the ways her daughter reminded her of Desiree, even – she might laugh with her sister about it. Are you sure she’s not yours? But here in this world, her daughter felt like a stranger and it terrified her. If her daughter didn’t feel like she was really hers, then nothing about her life was real.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She would leave him. She’d always had a good sense for when it was time to leave. Call it intuition or restlessness, call it whatever you want. She’d never been the type to overstay her welcome. She knew when it was time to leave Los Angeles, and a year later, she would know to leave New York. She knew when she out to be with a man for six weeks or six years. Leaving was the same regardless. Leaving was simple. Staying was the part she’d never quite mastered.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “In the dormitories, she’d been surrounded by the relentlessly ambitious, but in that West Hollywood apartment building, all of the neighbors she met were people whose dreams of fame had already been dashed. Cinematographers working at Kodak stores, screenwriters teaching English to immigrants, actors starring in burlesque shows in seedy bars.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “For weeks, Desiree carried it with her until one night, in a fit of fury, she ripped it up, scattered it outside the window. She regretted that now, wished she still had something as small as a scrap of paper with Stella’s handwriting on it.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She was good at pretending to be brave. She would never admit to Farrah that she was homesick and worried always about money.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Desiree had spent years studying Stella. The way she played with her hem, how she tucked her hair behind her ear or gazed up hesitantly before saying hello. She could mirror her sister, mimic her voice, inhabit her body in her own. She felt special, knowing that she could pretend to be Stella but Stella could never be her.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “He wasn’t a settling man. He was only good at getting lost.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Desiree and Stella, Mallard’s girls. As they grew, they no longer seemed like one body split in two, but two bodies poured into one, each pulling it her own way.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Jude wanted to change and she didn’t see why it should be so hard or why she should have to explain it to anyone.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “They thought King was an impressive speaker, maybe even agreed with some of his ideas. They wouldn’t have sent a bullet into his head – they might have even cried watching his funeral, that poor young family – but they still wouldn’t have allowed the man to move into their neighborhood.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Her body changed, his body changing, familiar and foreign at the same time. When you married someone, you promised to love every person he would be. He promised to love every person she had been. And here they were, still trying, even though the past and the future were both mysteries.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “He would live a small life, and instead of depressing him, the thought became comforting. For the first time, he no longer felt trapped. Instead, he felt safe. He.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “The shows seemed like the perfect form for her. Each day, the stories inching forward, but at the end of the week, the world essentially unchanged, the characters exactly who they had always been.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “So focused on what was next that she didn’t appreciate what she’d already gotten away with.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “By Tucson, it was Therese who felt like a costume. How real was a person if you could shed her in a thousand miles?”
Brit Bennett Quote: “By 1986, Mallard had been scrubbed off every transit map in the area. For most folks, the name change didn’t mean much. Mallard had always been more of an idea than a place, and an idea couldn’t be redefined by geographical terms.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “He respected the natural order of things but you didn’t have to be cruel about it.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She could think of nothing more horrifying than not being able to hide what she wanted.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Three times he’d touched her and himself too, panting, his breath thick with brandy, while she tried to get away, but the pantry was too small and he was too strong, pressing her against the shelves. Then it was over, as quick as it started. Soon her fear of him became worse than the touching. All the days she worried that he might creep up behind her ruined the ones when he didn’t.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Mallard had always been more of an idea than a place and an idea couldn’t be redefinided by geographical terms.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “The sudden rush of empathy startled her. Was that what it was like to be this girl? An unwise choice earning you sympathy, not scorn, a single moment of doubt forcing a practical stranger to affirm that you were, in fact, special?”
Brit Bennett Quote: “The world worked differently than he’d ever imagined. People you loved could leave and there was nothing you could do about it. Once he’d grasped that, the inevitability of leaving, he became a little older in his own eyes.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She could tell the truth, she thought, but there was no single truth anymore. She’d lived a life split between two women – each real, each a lie.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Why?” Roberta said. “You love him? And he loves you so much, he knocked your head off your shoulders?”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Won’t be easy,” he said. “Wasn’t easy for me. You know a man smacked me once at church? Right on the back of my neck. All because I put my finger in the holy water before his wife. Like I ruined it somehow. I thought my uncle was gonna stick up for me. I don’t know why, I just thought. But he told the man sorry like I done somethin wrong.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “All over the city, couples doing what they were doing. Teenagers kissing on blankets at a beach, the ocean rolling in black. Newlyweds fumbling in a hotel room. A man whispering into his lover’s ear. A woman holding a match to a slender candle, her face glowing off the kitchen window. Across the city, darkness and light.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Likely does not mean certain. Improbable does not mean impossible.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She’d wandered through the house, admiring the long white couches and marble countertops and the giant glass windows that faded into a view of the beach. She couldn’t imagine living like this – hanging on a cliff, exposed by glass. But maybe the rich didn’t feel a need to hide. Maybe wealth was the freedom to reveal yourself.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Passed down through the family, Early told him. Like most truths, it sounded a little phony.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “You did all this for a man?” “Not for him,” she said. “I just liked who I was with him.” “White.” “No,” Stella said. “Free.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Now her sister had decided she’d rather be white and her mother blamed her because Stella was no longer there to blame.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She would talk to her mother on the phone, days later, and not say a word about Stella. Maybe she was like her aunt in that way. Maybe, like Stella, she became a new person in each place she’d lived, and she was already unrecognizable to her mother, a girl who hoarded secrets. A liar.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She’d live a life split between two women – each real, each a lie.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “A hurt bird always returns to its nest, a hurting woman no different.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Sometimes you could understand why Stella passed over. Who didn’t dream of leaving herself behind and starting over as someone new? But how could she kill the people who’d loved her? How could she leave the people who still longed for her, years later, and never even look back? That was the part that Jude could never understand.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “They weren’t far from home but this was Los Angeles. You could cover a lifetime in eleven miles.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “She told her the truth, of course – that an assassination is when someone kills you to make a point. Which was correct enough, Stella supposed, but only if you were an important man. Important men became martyrs, unimportant ones victims.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “That was the problem: you could never love two people the exact same way. Her blessing had been doomed from the beginning, her girls as impossible to please as jealous gods.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Playing white to get ahead was just good sense. But marrying a dark man? Carrying his blueblack child? Desiree Vignes had courted the type of trouble that would never leave.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “There was nothing to being white except boldness. You could convince anyone you belonged somewhere if you acted like you did.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Once, when she was thirteen, her mother had brought her to the mall to buy a new dress for her birthday. Kennedy was beginning to pull away by then, wishing she could have gone to Bloomingdale’s with her girlfriends instead. But her mother was barely focusing on her. She paused in the middle of the shop floor, fingering the lacy sleeves of a black gown. “I love shopping,” she’d said, almost to herself. “It’s like trying on all the other people you could be.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “I think everybody who ever hurt me loved me,” her mother said.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Now, seven years later, Therese Anne Carter was only a name on a birth certificate in the offices of Union County Public Records. No one could tell that he’d ever been her, and sometimes, he could hardly believe it either.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “A lowly orphan, alone in the city. If he pitied her, he wouldn’t be able to see her clearly. He would refract all of her lies through her mourning, mistake her reticence about her past for grief.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “The last thing she wanted was to love someone else who looked just like herself.”
Brit Bennett Quote: “Only white folks got the freedom to hate home.”
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