The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.”
“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”
“Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? ”
“I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.”
“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.”
“To take the tops off all the houses and mingle our miseries was too simple a solution, I knew. Houses had windows with shades. Yards had gates and fences. There were carefully planned out sidewalks and roads, and these were the paths that, if you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.”
“I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.”
“Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.”
“If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.”
“I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. “It’s an opportunity, not an attack,” they read.”
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