Michelle Quinn

“I'm a roomful of broken hearts”
― Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

“They may all look alike in the fog, brother, but not under electric light.”
― Ann Petry, The Narrows

“So many questions asked about what I did that night," I say. "No one has asked, what did that night do to me?”
― Catriona Ward, Little Eve

“I'll recite it like a folktale. These sorts of memories, they're easier to understand that way. A memory, a true memory is harsh and full of sharp edges. The facts, they don't always make sense in the ways that we might wish. Things happen that we cannot speak of aloud. These remembering are prickly like blackberry briar in winter, with no leaves to soften them. And the worst thing about memory, the deadliest, most brutal part: memory can be forgotten.
But a folktale-a folktale can never be forgotten because it wriggles and rearranges until it sits neatly on the heart.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot