"The Mothers" Quotes
Secrets, regrets, and the enduring impact of choices made in youth shape the lives of a tight-knit community in Southern California.
fiction | 288 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
All good secrets have a taste before you tell them.
Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss.
It felt like a promise, that we would always be together.
That was where memories went: they left the room and turned into something else.
She thought, I'm not going to be like this, but then she was.
That's what you do when you're sad, you tell yourself it's going to be okay.
It's not about the money, it's about giving up your dream.
They were young and in love and they didn't want to listen to anyone.
It was like when you're a kid and someone gives you a piece of candy. You're happy.
She had never learned how to love the way she had been loved.
