Before I Forget
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Top 10 Best Quotes
“For the first time in his life, the very first time in his life, he hated her. Or he tried to, at least. Tried mightily. But it is a hell of a thing to hate your own mother, to hate where you came from, to hate what succored you and nourished you when you could not do it for yourself. A hell of a thing to hate that, even when it hates you, even when it calls you a nothing, calls you garbage and tells you to throw yourself away. Because even then, she is still your mother.”
“Whoever said the truth sets you free never told the truth.”
“That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self.”
“Sometimes, yesterday says goodbye to you.”
“Love is a powerful tie, son. At the end, it's the thing that pulls us back together when everything else has pulled us apart.”
“You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement.”
“You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done.”
“You could get lost in and never care about finding your way back.”
“To lose your memory is not just to lose everything you have. It's to lose everything you are. It's to lose your very self. What are you without the things you remember.”
“They drove through the intersection and turned left on a street Mo had once known like his favorite song. It was strange to him now and he wondered if that was because of the disease or just the natural effect of change itself, the tendency of things to move around on you, to shift when you weren't looking. So that you could get back and be a stranger in your own places.”
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