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81 " Well, the world is wide and full of happenstance,” Gram says. I don’t bother calling that the bullshit it so clearly is. I’m not getting anything here. "
― Rory Power , Burn Our Bodies Down
82 " she spent her first day at the scene of a crime?” Anderson says. “Some summer visit. "
83 " But it’s not love, to give your wounds to someone else. I won’t be part of it. Not anymore. "
84 " I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on. "
85 " I’m on my way to being brand new. "
86 " It’s not that she forgets about me. I really don’t think that’s it. More like Mom usually has only enough energy to look after one person, and that person’s always her. "
87 " She knew who she was and who I should be, and she fit into all the places in me I couldn'f fill. "
― Rory Power , Wilder Girls
88 " What I meant, what I wanted. They don't matter anymore. We're here, and that's the rest of our lives. "
89 " (...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them. "
90 " they came back from the woods with their names torn out of their heads. "
91 " She has her girl. I'm missing both of mine. "
92 " There’s no room to feel bad. If I feel that, I have to feel everything else. "
93 " All of it evidence that things happened the way I remember. You need that with someone like Mom, someone who fights more about whether things happened than whether they hurt. "
94 " Stay with me,' she says, 'and I'll stay with you, yeah? "
95 " I shouldn't have had to be strong. Not like that. I should have been able to break. Maybe one day all that strength can just be a gift my mother gave me, and not the tool I used to survive her. But i don't think it's today. "