hush Quotes

Everything about who we were is gone—our names, our pictures, our old clothes and old lives. All that we have is our souls. (1.9)

I want to say Daddy, you did the right thing.But I don't know if that's true. (1.6-7)

Imagine your best friend's smile, how you remember it from its front-teeth-missing days till this moment. A year after the braces have come off and she's finally learned how to comb that mass of ha...

Mama in the kitchen, older now, too, but still glancing out the window on the nights when Daddy's late getting home. (1.31)

She is brown—all-over brown—hair, eyes, skin. So brown the youngest daughter used to say, "I can eat you like a chocolate bar, Ma," which made the mother laugh. Her mother's brown reminds her o...

She bought a Watchtower, an Awake! and a small brown book called Reasoning the Scriptures.But you don't have a religious bone in your body, my sister said to her.What do I have? Mama asked. Then sh...

Later, with the coconut cake still resting in her stomach, the youngest rises from her bed and stares out into the night—the moon is bright yellow, the sky blue-black, the shadows that are the Ro...

If I was brave, I would look full at them and say I'd like a little taste of that. Then I'd take that bottle and put it straight up to my lips, take a long, hard drink of that stuff and wipe my mou...