“we are prisoners of the story we tell about ourselves, the story of the parents descended from poor immigrants who made it good and now have the Cadillacs and the beautiful, successful children and the most porch lights at Christmas.… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that every family has its defining action, its defining belief. From childhood, I understood that my parents’ was this: Never look back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“When a lifeline comes, you don’t evaluate whether it’s the right one. You just grab for it, and hold on.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“The law—with each side’s relentless pursuit of one story—has never known what to do with this complicated middle ground. But life is full of… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“So I try something new. Not turning my back to the past, not fleeing it, but extending a hand. I say to the past,… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“I knew it was gonna rain,” she tells them. “But I’m kind of glad, because it’s like the angels in heaven are crying.” The” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“This is the logic I will never find an answer to, the way in my family a hurt will always be your hurt or… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“Lyme disease is new then, barely known. The doctor hasn’t tested me for it. We can see only what we have a name for. Now he crouches in front of the table. His eyes are ice blue, too bright. “There is nothing wrong with you,” he says, and his voice is artificially high, like he is talking to a child.… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share
“All of these events, we would understand, were tangled together- no one cause, no one beginning.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“Consistency is what we prize, and coherency, and reason, and to be true to our ideals so that they fit together into the neat… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“But is an act ever really only about itself? Does any element of this story occur in isolation? I” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“But strangely, I am all right. The world I belong to now is the one in the books I read. When I am awake,… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I want to,… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
