Betsy Gant

“MARRIAGE IS A FUNNY THING. THERE ARE SO MANY people in the world, and you decide to commit the rest of your life, the rest of your emotional energy, to just one. You assume that the mysterious connection that ties you to one another will hold. A connection that can’t be trusted, one that probably manifests in that same mystical space where stories come from. A place that allows you to suspend your disbelief. Marriage assumes that you will bend and twist and adjust to one another. It assumes that your desires will forever be interconnected by the placement of a piece of gold around a finger. For many people this is true. I envy those people who can dig deep and find that thing that originally allowed them to believe they could spend their entire lives sleeping in the same bed, sit across the table from one another day in and day out, make a family, make memories, good and bad.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“Dying is something I have to do alone.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“My father was older, yes, but in my mind, still too young for death. I cursed them both, my mother and my father. They hadn’t prepared me for death.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“It seems unfair that time is almost up for me just when I’m finding true happiness again, but time is never a friend to the sick or the old.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers