Amy Conner > Quotes

“Responsibility, Aunt Too-Tai said, is a ladder. We move up, we move down, and sometimes we miss a rung and swing out into the void, but the ladder is forgivingly endless. I was young, she said. Don’t worry, she said. I’d have many chances at that ladder. She set her bucket down in the dirt and gave me a hug.”
― Amy Conner, The Right Thing

“we’d all go mad if we had to experience what life throws at you every day with the same shock and wailing intensity of just-born emotions.”
― Amy Conner, The Right Thing