"The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" Quotes
"The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" follows the life of Hattie Shepherd and her twelve children as they navigate love, loss, and the complexities of family in 1920s Philadelphia.
fiction | 243 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
It was not the sadness of an old woman who would never see the likes of her life again, but the sadness of a young girl who had never known the possibilities.
Some things you do for money, some you do for love, love was the thing that made you and love was the thing that made you break.
The world is a broken place because the people in it are broken.
Survival was not a skill she was particularly interested in teaching her children.
It was not her fault that the world was a cruel and capricious place.
Sometimes a person didn't realize the weight of something they'd been carrying until they felt the weight of its absence.
The future was a thing she'd never imagined could belong to her.
The past was a thing she'd rather forget.
There was nothing harder in this world than being a black man. Nothing harder than being a black woman.
It was the kind of love a person gave when the person they loved was gone.
