Caitlin Hamilton Summie > Quotes

“In this neighborhood of unreliable cars and steady, hopeful hearts. In this city known for its winters, in the middle of the plains, in the heart of the country. In this gentle summer soon to slip into the crisp cool of fall. Here in some kind of broken down glory, they had taken root, and thrived. Mostly.”
― Caitlin Hamilton Summie, To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts

“There is not a child in the world more loved than you,” my mother always told me, but she couldn’t keep emptiness from spreading through me, a feeling so airy I’ve never forgotten the way it lodged inside me and hung on.”
― Caitlin Hamilton Summie, To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts: Stories