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“It was strange, learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“We would’ve told her that all together, we got centuries on her. If we laid all our lives toes to heel, we were born before the Depression, the Civil War, even America itself. In all that living, we have known men. Oh girl, we have known littlebit love. That littlebit of honey left in an empty jar that traps the sweetness in your mouth long enough to mask your hunger. We have run tongues over teeth to savor that last littlebit as long as we could, and in all our living, nothing has starved us more.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“Her mother had died a month ago and she was drawn to anyone who wore their pain outwardly, the way she couldn’t.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“Time didn't age you; memory did.”
― The Echo Maker
― The Echo Maker
“She’d feel worse if she had an audience. Vulnerable. Luke had seen her naked—he had slipped inside her own body—but somehow, his seeing her afraid was an intimacy she could not bear.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
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