“There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. ”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
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