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“The kids who grow up fine do so because of us, or despite us.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“It made me seethe, hang up the phone, to know her life was going on as normal without her children-like we'd never been born, like the house never touched her the way it touched us.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“Mama knows she is being cruel, and I know that she knows that she's being cruel, and she knows that I know, and she wants to stop, but she also wants to not stop because it feels too good to make her point.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“You telling me you don't know by now to expect pain? says Mama.

I lived in a house devoted to my breaking apart, but I refused to be wrong in front of Mama.

I guess I hope every time it will be different.

I wait for Mama to mock my confession. A woman dedicated to relentless self-reliance, she's built her three children to be invulnerable.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home