ReadwithNP

“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

“Billions of humans, all of us scurrying around the planet, falling in and out of love with each other for no reason explicable by logic or numbers or common sense. How unaccountably strange we are.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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

“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