Stitches: A Memoir Quotes

To me, Dad and his colleagues seemed like the heroic men featured in the ads in LIFE Magazine, marching bravely into the bright and shining future. (1.61)

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight […] or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language. (1.18-22)

Finally, when Great-Grandmother Murphy died, everyone learned she had been a petty thief. Her bedroom chest was stuffed with piecegoods: ladies' kid gloves, ribbons, lengths of silk and spools of l...

And it was Dad the radiologist who gave me the many X-rays that were supposed to cure my sinus problems. (1.45)

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"Surely this is not me." "No, friend. It surely is." (3.121-122)

X-rays could see through clothes, skin, even metal. They were miraculous wonder rays that could cure anything. (1.61)