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“Having too little in life, being the underdog, is only good as backstory, not the constant every day of your breathing.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“People were always so sure other people didn’t care. Devon saw that with most people you had to come into their sight, not just be an idea, and then they could show their goodness plain.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“He could have broken down at that moment in worship to her. Only the idea that she might run away stopped him. We are not ashamed to be saved.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“There is an instinct to hide, and against our better thinking we find the darkest place to squeeze ourselves into. Someone has to be able to find you on those days. Somebody has to pull you out.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“You need to mourn your pain or it will rot you. Don’t let anybody tell you different.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“Her good mama had loved wrong, but not for nothing. They say that life can give you another chance, but don’t believe it. You choose to find another chance. Either way, don’t strike out for the territory, there is no undiscovered country.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“You know, love isn’t a cold, Henry. You don’t just get over it.”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
“She wanted to say that amidst the chaos of days, the great detritus of living was your actual life. She wanted to say stop looking for it, honey, this is it. What she did say was, ‘You’ve got a house here, JJ. Live in it.’”
-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts