Hayden

“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.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“It wasn’t lost on me that I mostly spoke my truth in the spaces where my family was absent.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“wear. It doesn’t take long for children to teach themselves not to want what they’ve already learned they won’t have. I couldn’t find a good enough reason to torture myself by acknowledging my futile desires for more stuff.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

“Kids can always tell the difference between adults who want to empower them, and adults who want to overpower them.”
― Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter