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“I did not mind getting hurt as much as I minded being surprised by the pain. I wanted to see it coming.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“Feeling any of it felt like the beginning of losing control, and losing control felt like certain death in my body, if not my mind. If I didn’t process the feeling, I wouldn’t feel it, and if I didn’t feel it, it couldn’t kill me.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“If my mother and I shared anything without having carefully considered it, it was this undying ember of a dream that we will someday, somehow find ourselves reaping the bounty of a blooming mother-daughter bond, the roots of which we both refuse to tend in the meantime.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“though I tended to hold adults to impossible standards, I seemed to have infinite patience for children. Unlike some adults, I never quit remembering what it was like to be one. Their small plights were familiar to me, as were their big feelings.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“My mother wasn’t perfect. Our relationship was complicated, and difficult. She was my imperfect mother. We were two different people, and found that hard to accept in one another. But I was hers and she was mine. That’s how it had always been. Who would I be, if not hers? I didn’t want to be without her.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
Hayden’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hayden’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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