Susan Macbean

“It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“How could parents raise children and then watch them walk out of their lives? Were thy all masochists? Why would they do that to themselves? He knew the answer deep down; he'd felt it when Chrissie told him she loved him. They did because for all the pain and heartache children brough, they gave back equal amounts of pure, limmitless joy.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“How does a mother tell her child that the memories he holds of his father are incorrect, that the truth does not even remotely resemble the memory? How does she tell him about the gaping holes in the recall that make it all a sham?”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair