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“When he asked her to marry him on their grad night, Judy said yes and then she cried. It was only later that she would realize those tears came not from joy but from somewhere else deep inside, the place where she stuffed old hurts, where nothing ever really died, instead bubbling up to make happiness—even a proposal—ugly and dotted with rot.”

— oof that’s too close to home

oh my godddd

“Everywhere she looked, there were barriers to freedom, to the wildness she wished she could unleash in the world.”

pgs 102-114 — loved this chapter

“She considered the wounds, the hunger for survival that is passed down, repeated, and then passed down again, and wondered what she had already given her daughter without even knowing it.” — on intergenerational trauma

“If there was such a thing as a haunting through grief and absence, then she had been haunted her entire life.”

“In the summers, Alice liked to escape to the back garden, where her mother never ventured and where the signs of her father’s presence were not so stagnant, not so frozen at the very precise moment he died. The peonies he tied up, the magnolia he watered..”

love this imagery