The real question is, who would Becca have been if she’d been raised from birth by a stable mother in a home where she was safe and cared for? Would she have been the Becca you knew? That’s the question.”
“It was that she was wrong. We do need people, every one of us. In fact, it’s impossible to do the hard stuff alone. I was sorrier than anything that my mom didn’t know that.”
― Litani
― Litani
“You’re saying this is how my mom is telling me she loves me?” He shrugged. “Might be all she has to offer.”
― Litani
― Litani
“That’s the thing about small-town boys. All they had to do was come up with that one shtick, a crack at just the right time, or a Hail Mary touchdown, or nail the part of Romeo in the class play, and they were set. They never had to try again. Here’s the thing about small-town girls: we let them get away with it. But not now. I didn’t have time for it.”
― Unspeakable Things
― Unspeakable Things
“Victims of abuse can still love the monster. This ambivalent loyalty might just be the predator’s ultimate form of damage.”
― If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
― If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
“She can’t believe it’s come to this. She has lost her fucking mind.”
― Little Secrets
― Little Secrets
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