The Deep
Rivers Solomon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
“Forgetting was not the same as healing.”
“because when you are in pain, sometimes the only escape is another different pain.”
“One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.”
“You say madness such as mine doesn’t exist, but it would exist in you, too, if you had to experience the ugly things I do all the time,” she said,”
“The deep will be our sibling, our parent, our relief from endless solitude. Down here, we are wrapped up. Down here, we can pretend the dark is the black embrace of another.”
“Where history saddened others, we felt only a glorious, burning anger. We liked the challenge of it. It suited us. Anger was our favorite emotion. We were at home in it. It gave us purpose.”
“She had no wish to transform trauma to performance, to parade what she’d come to think of as her own tragedies for entertainment.”
“You Lived. You did what you needed to do to make sure you lived. Our survival honors ancestors more than any tradition.”
“What does it mean to be born of the dead? What does it mean to begin?”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves solely as promotional material for the aforementioned book. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
forgetting, healing, memories, intergenerational, mermaids, belonging, rivers-solomon, inspirational, remembering, history, mermaid, slavery, colonialism, loneliness, the-deep, anger
