Hope

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? —Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“These hushed years. These secrets of the body. To whom did they belong first. I want to find where it began and say, I'm here now, listening. I want to reach through the years and tell the women I've been lonely.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“When I think of my father, I think of my heart breaking in stages. A dull pain, then piercing. Electric. Still, somehow, gradual.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

“Sometimes we choose what to believe, sometimes we know it.”
― T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls