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“I’ve learned not to question my own actions and thoughts too deeply though, sometimes you just have to go with whatever gets you through the day.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“Keep your mouth shut, Retta,” Mama said when I told her what I suspected. “You don’t know nothin’ for a fact.” I listened to her, but Lord, Lord it plagued me. Now I wonder if trouble won’t find you again and again if you don’t speak the truth. I wonder if you got to call what you see by its proper name, to cast out the sin within. I leave the knives on the floor of the slaughterhouse and gather up the children’s underthings. Holding them I feel what was dead come to life. I lay them inside the box, close the heavy lid and fasten the lock, but Miss Annie’s wishes don’t matter any more than mine do. The truth is in the open.”
― Deb Spera, Call Your Daughter Home

“I found the old me, still in here, and the new me sitting right alongside her. We made friends.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over.”
― Deb Spera, Call Your Daughter Home