"The Vanishing Half" Quotes
Twin sisters live separate lives, one passing as white and the other embracing her black identity, in a thought-provoking exploration of race and identity.
fiction | 343 pages | Published in 2020
Quotes
Desire caused trouble. It caused men to tear down houses looking for women, to make women cry.
You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood.
It is about the way that history, whether personal or societal, can define a person and trap her.
She had been so certain she could leave her old life behind, but it had followed her here.
The truth was that Stella had been passing for white for so long, she sometimes forgot that she was black.
The problem was that desire and hate were rooted in the same place. They were both the outcome of wanting something you could not have.
People thought that the passing was the thing that was hard, but Mae had always thought that the pretending was much worse.
You can be a different person for people, and they don’t even notice.
It hurt her that her own daughter didn't recognize her. She didn't know why it should matter, but it did.
The sadness of loss is a language that we all speak.
