Karen Abbott

Quotes

• “Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways bo...”
• “And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path bac...”
• “Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any ...”
• “He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -J...”