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“And I don't know if it's bad like abuse. Abuse is much easier to identify when it's not in your own kitchen.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Everyone says gone but not forgotten, but it's ultimately the other way around. Generations later, a mother is forgotten but not gone- a pulse in the bodies born from her love”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“She wiggles and squirms and shifts, and fear hums beside me as I begin to understand that keeping a child is like keeping the sky— always with me but never mine.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years