The Virgin Cure
Ami McKay
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.”
“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.”
“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.”
“Words are an unreliable way to measure the heart“, she said. “I’m more inclined to trust what I observe rather than what someone tells me.”
“Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home.”
“American girls never whimper.”
“All you need to know about men is this - they have a great need to put their cock into whatever hole they find.”
“Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.”
“On any given day, acts of kindness occur all across the city. Someone gives up their bed so someone else can rest their tired, aching bones. Someone hands a bit of change to a stranger. There's hot soup and good fortune, soft words and bread. Then there are the cruel things that happen, the worst that you can imagine. Heaven help you if even one of them finds you. The memory of it will never let you alone.”
“Mother, if you love her- Mother, if you love her, keep her clean. Mother, if you lover her, keep her-”
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Book Keywords:
daughter, family, crying, broken-trust, poverty, hurt, mothers, truths, wisdom, mother, humor, abandonment, motherhood, memories
