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The Lost Daughter Collective QUOTES

The Lost Daughter Collective QUOTES

1 " He thought that by stripping the world of a word, it would be saved. But he hadn’t considered that language lives, and when it dies, it haunts. When he said classify, I heard calcify. This is why I have not changed. "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective

2 " She had no intention of ever mothering, for, as she had recently been thinking, she was not sure what children were. Were they the way a person ensured something was left crawling and creeping on earth’s soil when she was buried? Were they the shadowy apparitions of all the people of her lineage? Were they a kind of self-centered pleasure or a kind of self-induced pain? Put less simply, were children the rubric or the body of work? "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective

3 " Daughterhood is a vocation concerned with following carefully prescribed rules, avoiding endangerment, evading threat; being a daughter means mastering the art of defense. The wonder, then, is what would happen to a daughter who rebelled. "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective

4 " The people who walk through the room with two doors do not know that they do so. One of the people is you. "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective

5 " do you not know the first rule of story? Endings are not invented; they are discovered. "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective