“The worst thing I’ve ever done is build an identity out of the worst thing I’ve ever done.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
“Gust used to explain the whole world that way: the mind as a house living in the house of the body, living in the house of a house, living in the larger house of the town, in the larger house of the state, in the houses of America and society and the universe. He said these houses fit inside one another like the Russian nesting dolls they bought for Harriet.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“The girl she can become if her mother is living, the girl she’ll never be if her mother takes her own life.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“But when you're focused on feeding something that can never truly be satiated, you miss what you're actually hungry for.”
― Funny You Should Ask
― Funny You Should Ask
“Because how we take care of broken people matters. Fundamentally, I believe, it determines our own humanity. And we don’t just sentence someone to a year or five years or ten years—we turn every sentence into a life sentence. Every sentence is a life sentence.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
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