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OUR LIVES AND the lives of those we love merge to create a river whose current carries us forward from our beginning to our end. Because we are only one part of the whole, the river each of us remembers is different, and there are many
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“OUR LIVES AND the lives of those we love merge to create a river whose current carries us forward from our beginning to our end. Because we are only one part of the whole, the river each of us remembers is different, and there are many versions of the stories we tell about the past. In all of them there is truth, and in all of them a good deal of innocent misremembering.”
― The River We Remember
― The River We Remember
“I remember that first time I squirted her, she panicked and ran to me for comfort. She clung to me, and I petted her until she calmed down. That’s how I was with Kenny. That’s how you were with Angie.” Amanda said this with conviction. “It’s the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.”
― The Kept Woman
― The Kept Woman
“When he comes crawling to you in tears the next morning, you don’t actually believe him anymore. But now this is just what you do. The same way you fix the hole in your dress with a safety pin or tape up the crack in a window. That’s the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it’s easier than addressing the root of the problem,”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Abuse is always with you. It’s in the DNA of your shadow. You turn around, and it’s never not there. All you can do is learn to live with it.”
― The Last Widow
― The Last Widow
“like to think of our memories like a mirror: reflecting images back to us, something familiar, but at the same time, backward. Distorted. Not quite as they are. But it’s impossible to look our past straight in the eye, to see things with perfect clarity, so we have to rely on the memories. We have to hope they aren’t somehow warped or broken, bending reality to fit the way we wish things were.”
― All the Dangerous Things
― All the Dangerous Things
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