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1. "That goes for old wounds, too, you know. I really wish we'd had the chance to talk before this," he says, cracking the window so the smoke can escape. "There's a Longfellow quote I have stuck on my bulletin board at the church office- 'There is no grief like the grief that does not speak'- and it's true. I've found that keeping pain inside doesn't give it a chance to heal, but bringing it out into the light, holding it right there in your hands and trusting that you're strong enough to make it through, not hating the pain, not loving it, just seeing it for what it really is can change how you go on from there. Time alone doesn't heal emotional wounds, Sayre, and you don't want to live the rest of your life bottled up with anger and guilt and bitterness. That's how people self-destruct." ~ Laura Wiess

2. "Never say God - and the Beatles - don't have great timing." ~ Laura Wiess

3. "And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do." ~ Laura Wiess

4. "They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you." She steps aside to let him through.I tuck my hair back behind my ears.Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile.He is so tall." ~ Laura Wiess

5. "No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got." ~ Laura Wiess

6. "Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family." ~ Laura Wiess

7. "The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin." ~ Laura Wiess

8. "Oh, there's a wholesome outing.' I say. 'Let's all skip down to the cop shop to register my daddy as a pervert. What fun." ~ Laura Wiess

9. "Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable." ~ Laura Wiess

10. "Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be." ~ Laura Wiess

11. "That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-' 'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison." ~ Laura Wiess

12. "And maybe love is terrifying. I'm terrified now, but not in the way she would think.I'm terrified because I hate who she is and what she's done, I do, and yet there is still something strong and powerful between us, some kind of deep, primal bond that won't end, won't snap or break or change, it just remains there inside me, as sold and factual as my blood and bones - she is my mother, I am her daughter - and I don't know what to call it because it doesn't feel like love, not the good kind I felt for Ellie, with all my heart, but instead an instinctual pull that's been there from the beginning, drawing me back to her again and again, the woman who has hurt me like no one else ever could, and now she's dying and the bond is still here, inside me, and I won't call it love or hate because emotions has nothing to do with the fact that she is my mother and I am her daughter, and we will be connected in that way forever." ~ Laura Wiess

13. "After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could still make me feel safe." ~ Laura Wiess

14. "No," I shout, because my mother doesn't know what I like anymore. "I don't eat things that bleed. Just cheese with lettuce or tomato and mayo. No dead fish or animals, please.""You see what I have to put up with?" my mother says." ~ Laura Wiess

15. "No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all." ~ Laura Wiess

16. "The weight in my pocket nudges my thigh, suddenly becomes my knife. I put my hand to its unforgiving outline and can't stop crying years of tears because if I don't stab my father with my weapon, then he is going to stab me with his." ~ Laura Wiess

17. "That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be." ~ Laura Wiess

18. "Where is home?Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace." ~ Laura Wiess

19. "All you really have...is now." ~ Laura Wiess

20. "How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?" ~ Laura Wiess

21. "The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples." ~ Laura Wiess

22. "We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring." ~ Laura Wiess

23. "Yeah, I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. Now I know plenty and you can't fucking touch me." ~ Laura Wiess

24. "Now, I learned a long time ago how to be quiet on the outside while I'm freaking on the inside. How to turn away like I don't see all the things that need to be seen, just to keep peace. How to lie low and act like I want nothing, expect nothing, and hope for nothing so I don't become more trouble than I'm worth. I'm five months short of eighteen and I know how to be cursed and ignored and left behind, how to swallow a thousand tears and ignore a thousand delibarate cruelties, but it's two in the morning on New Year's Eve and I'm mad and scared and bone tired and really, really sick of acting like I'm grateful to be staying on a hairy, sagging, dog-stained couch in a junky, mildewed trailer with a fat, dangerous, volatile drunk who sweats stale beer and wallows in his own wastewater, and who doesn't think there's one thing wrong with taking his crap life out on his dog, who comes bellying back for forgiveness every single time, no matter how rotten the treatment-" ~ Laura Wiess

25. "How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp?""Chirp is dead," I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. "You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left." ~ Laura Wiess

26. "Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me." ~ Laura Wiess

27. "Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention." ~ Laura Wiess

28. "You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-""Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad." ~ Laura Wiess

29. "I know the grim probability of my own future. The odds are high that the best of me has already been ripped away and that id I don't keep hold of myself I will lose what's left." ~ Laura Wiess

30. "this is no place for miracles" ~ Laura Wiess

31. "So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO." ~ Laura Wiess

32. "We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, not saviors. Their fathers leave us, sick of crap and sour milk, sweatpants and tears. But the babies still need all of us, only there isn't anything left to give because we based our worth on the lowlifes who knocked us up and around. So our babies end up screwed up and screwed with because not we're single again, too, so we're bringing home guys who secretly like pink satin baby skin more than our silvery stretch marks. We don't see what we should see because having anyone is till supposedly better than being alone." ~ Laura Wiess

33. "It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead." ~ Laura Wiess

34. "Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit." ~ Laura Wiess

35. "See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown." ~ Laura Wiess

36. "I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell" ~ Laura Wiess

37. "I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure -- hunger, thirst, shelter -- and they didn't mind leftovers." ~ Laura Wiess

38. "All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom" ~ Laura Wiess

39. "If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother gave him for his eighteenth birthday nestled in his coarse, whorled chest hair. My front teeth throb as the memory of the charm bangs against them." ~ Laura Wiess

40. "But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. (Job)" ~ Laura Wiess

41. "And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through" ~ Laura Wiess

42. "If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales. 'You know what, Mom? You're right. Let me do for Nicky exactly what he did for me.' She wheels and with one savage sweep of her arm, she clears the table and sends everything crashing to the floor." ~ Laura Wiess

43. "Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry." ~ Laura Wiess

44. "knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question" ~ Laura Wiess

45. "In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn." ~ Laura Wiess

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