Danny’s Fresh Reads (hayley)

“He would teach me how true a life emptied of all but its essentials could feel and that, when you got down to it, not much mattered outside the determination to go on living.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I came to understand that she, like I, like women throughout the ages, knew the value of employing silence as a guard dog to her truth.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I learned from a young age the tenacity of ruin. Through the parlor window, with every angry brown spit into his can, with every swig of whiskey, Og reminded me not to trust in appearances for clues to what might come.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Women endure. That’s what we do.”
“That’s nonsense,” she replied more harshly than I expected. “A woman is more than a vessel meant to carry babies and grief.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River