A review by kajaglede
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

the book was heartbreaking and then I read the authors not, just made it even worse.

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We're all wanting something, though; most of us replacing what we really want with skin, which works until you wake up and the mirror is a blur of time twisting around the throat.

Mama used to tell me that blood is everything, but I think we’re all out here unlearning that sentiment, scraping our knees and asking strangers to patch us back up.

The swarm of her voice is closing in on me, like poison dripping out her mouth, and she can't seem to ever look at me and tell me what I need to hear.

And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was the more real?

That was before I learned that life won’t give you reasons for none of it, that sometimes fathers disappear and little girls don’t make it to another birthday and mothers forget to be mothers.

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