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“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

“it does something to a girl—even a grown girl with an awful father—to see her father hurt.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“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

“Shh, shh. Your mom will be here soon to feed you. We’re here at the beginning. I’ll paint a bottle of milk for you. I will not throw it. But I left my white crayon under the table. If we can’t take a drive, how about a little walk? I wake. Startle. She has been fed. Grown up. Hated me. Loved me again. I am old. Dying. And she is still here. This is a forgiveness I never gave my own father. But—Georgette! I close my eyes. Georgette.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years