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Amity Gaige
“Something about the physical labor moves me. It's as if I'm saying "all right, Maine. All right, winter. All right, time. You win.”
Amity Gaige, Heartwood

Amity Gaige
“You're an idiot. You're not half the man she is.”
Amity Gaige, Heartwood

Virginia      Evans
“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

Amity Gaige
“I have more thanks to give than there are hours on earth”
Amity Gaige, Heartwood

Amity Gaige
“Does it bother you that I never wanted children of my own? Maybe in private moments you think it speaks poorly of you or of your mothering. But the opposite is true. My choice reflects my awe of mothers. After all, as an anxious child, I understood the masochistic level of exposure a mother takes on the moment her child is born, how agonizing her position. Your response to life’s chaos was to over-function. You were a taskmaster, a list maker, a toer-of-the-line. Like mothers the world over, you labored simultaneously on multiple fronts, clocking in at work while still managing a family. (Sick child/flat tire/dirty grout/empty fridge.) Thank you for being conflicted. Thank you for how godawful you looked certain mornings. For your occasional deranged soliloquies of resentment. Honestly, they made me love you more.”
Amity Gaige, Heartwood

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