Carmen

“Even if you have a bad mother like Babydoll had, you can use her to know what you are not.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin

“While I was tended to, I was never mothered. Many people suffered far more, even people raised at the knees of their actual mamas. Still, the hole in my spirit made me into the girl I was and then the woman that I am. One day, I will grow a person within myself and love that little person so hard that it would bind her to me like rich dirt in the corner of a canvas satchel.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin

“you gave me the care that people save for kin.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin

“But this is how life work--the women who would be capable mothers too often don't want kids. And too many of those with children probably should have just sat that one out. Luckily, most were in between.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin