Alice

“I love you past the sun and the moon and the stars,” she’d always say to me when I was little. But I just want her to love me here. Now. On Earth.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“I still want to believe that breathtaking literary work necessitates American men sentimentally naming the hurt we've done, sourcing that hurt to one trauma, and getting congratulated, often by women, for "our honesty" at reckoning with that trauma while neglecting the suffering we cause”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“A daughter is wedded to her mother first.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“Le pouvoir est comme le soleil et la mort, il ne peut se regarder en face. Surtout en Russie.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin