“Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami.”
“[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.”
“A little baby girl trying to soothe her girl of a mother”
“My baby girl liked pink”
“Cross the threshold, beauty girl," he says."You cross mine," she says back.”
“It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.”