"Salvage the Bones" Quotes
A pregnant teenager in a poverty-stricken Mississippi community prepares for Hurricane Katrina while dealing with family struggles.
fiction | 273 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
We can’t do nothing. We’re a family.
Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.
The world don’t love us.
I wanted to fall in love with the moon.
It’s always been like that. We ain’t had nothing that wasn’t broke. And we like it like that.
I like the way it feels, working with China and wood. It’s like, I don’t know, like I’m fixing something.
The waves, they wash over everything, wash you away, wash you clean.
I don’t know if China or her puppies can make it. I don’t know if I can make it.
We need another hurricane. A big one. One that wash everything away.
We live in a world where the decision to have a baby is the decision to risk death.





