Shanna

“She wiggles and squirms and shifts, and fear hums beside me as I begin to understand that keeping a child is like keeping the sky— always with me but never mine.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Her heart is buried in the darkness of the earth, but it is also buried in the darkness of my body. Everyone says "gone but not forgotten," though it's ultimately the other way around: generations later, a mother is forgotten but not gone- a pulse in the bodies birthed from her love. Shit. I might want to have children. All that resurrection.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“it does something to a girl—even a grown girl with an awful father—to see her father hurt.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“And I don't know if it's bad like abuse. Abuse is much easier to identify when it's not in your own kitchen.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years