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“Even with her dying breath I told her she was going to be fine. I didn’t have the courage to tell her the truth. As mothers, don’t we owe our children the truth? I ought to have had more strength, but I didn’t. My girl looked at me with such fright. Maybe I could have calmed her with the idea of heaven, but I couldn’t let go.”
― Deb Spera, Call Your Daughter Home

“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
― Deb Spera, Call Your Daughter Home

“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

“I think I’ve been trying too hard to be everything to everyone.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird