What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Michele Filgate
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them. To know what it was like to have one place where we belonged. Where we fit.”
“There is a gaping hole perhaps for all of us, where our mother does not match up with “mother” as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give us. What I cannot tell her is all that I would tell her if I could find a way to not still be sad and angry about that.”
“I love you past the sun and the moon and the stars,” she’d always say to me when I was little. But I just want her to love me here. Now. On Earth.”
“It reminds me that in moments of pain I will never turn to her for comfort because she, hurt child as she is, will never be able to give it to me.”
“To say: Here is everything that keeps us from really talking. Here is my heart. Here are my words. I wrote this for you.”
“couldn’t locate the specific feeling I’d had the last time we talked. I thought for a few hours after I cried in the bathroom that I would call her and I would tell her I loved her. But I did not trust calling her. I was afraid that if I called her, she would talk and it would be too hard for me to love her after that.”
“I think, ultimately, other people aren’t real to us until they’re suffering or gone. That’s when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them.”
“A daughter is wedded to her mother first.”
“We get so used to the stories we tell about ourselves. This is why we sometimes need to find ourselves in the stories of others.”
“She’s happy. Don’t make her think she’s not.”
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