“We may not know how we know that, but we know it all the same: the moon watches, and the moon worries, and the moon will always love us, no matter what.”
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Tiger Lily
― Tiger Lily
“A father who changes a nappy is a god. A mother who continues to breastfeed through mastitis and hemorrhoids and a third-degree tear is just a mother.”
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“Beyond this swamp, beyond these sweltering lands, there were other worlds. Places she could have gone. People she could have been. She felt them now, these other selves, stirring like ghosts in the grave of her soul.”
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“Both girls, through different routes, down different roads, had come home.”
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
― Down Among the Sticks and Bones
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