“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
“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
“Bessie, beware of men who have gone their whole lives without hearing the word "no.”
― Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
― Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
“Her daughter became a doctor. Her daughter would have a daughter, me. · · · She and I would fall in love. We’d speak in songs: “My angel, my angel, you saved my life.” We’d have secrets and hiding places and code words. We’d talk about our hair until we fell asleep. We’d watch old movies and read new books. We’d cry for no reason. We’d cry for every reason all at once. We’d said everything that ever occurred to us to each other, even if it was nothing, or mean, or so mean it was crazy. We’d eat the same foods at exactly the same rates in exactly the same ways. We never said goodbye, always “I love you, I love you, I love you.” Three times. Never enough. “If you ever have a daughter,” she’d tell me, “I declare her a force.”
― Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story
― Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story
“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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