“The feeling of your insides churning, the knot in your throat that words can't ease, your mouth being dry while your cheeks are wet—the emptiness, the hollowness. The nowhere to go. People call it heartbreak, but it hurts everywhere else.”
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“Black girls get to write about benign heartbreak too.”
“When you're healed you tell the story differently.”
“I loved a man so hard it made me sick.”
“I loved myself so hard I brought her back.”
“That miserable old bollix isn't knocking on Heaven's door, he's booting it off its hinges.”