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“I’m not sucking up, I’m surviving, I thought. There’s a difference.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“You are a part of this family now, whether you like it or not. You’re stuck with us, you hear me? And we wouldn’t have it any other way.” I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes, the lump rising in my throat. Is this what it feels like? I thought, my heart swelling with a fierce, aching love.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“I understand the fickle nature of memory—how our minds can sometimes erase the most painful experiences, leaving behind a sanitized version of the past.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“ConneXions wasn't introducing Ruby to a new way of thinking; it was giving her the vocabulary and pseudo-scientific backing to justify what she'd been doing all along.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“Cults are thought to prey on the vulnerable, the lost, the broken—but here’s the thing, they also can ensnare anyone who is simply a human searching for meaning.”
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
― The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
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