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> [“I can’t go on like this, I told myself. And You can’t possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God.  God didn’t argue. Forced to choose between my nostalgia for the faith of my childhood and my dignity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/i-can-t-go-on-like-this-i-told-myself-and-you-can-t-possibly-want-me/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

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## More by Joanna Brooks

> [“Who watches over us when we leave?  Who remembers our names when disappear ourselves from home? Who hears the absence of our voices?  Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/who-watches-over-us-when-we-leave-who-remembers-our-names-when/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/courage-doesn-t-mean-being-free-from-fear-it-means-learning-to-work/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/what-do-we-do-with-ourselves-when-we-find-we-have-failed-to-become/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am not an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/i-am-not-the-same-kind-of-mormon-girl-i-was-when-i-was-seven-eight-or/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/this-is-a-church-of-tenderness-and-arrogance-of-sparkling-differences/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“After many years of confusion, she will come home to a house she chose herself, with a man she chose herself, a man whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/after-many-years-of-confusion-she-will-come-home-to-a-house-she-chose/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“I can’t go on like this, I told myself. And You can’t possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God.  God didn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/i-can-t-go-on-like-this-i-told-myself-and-you-can-t-possibly-want-me/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“I said "it is my first language, my mother tongue, my family, my people, my home; it is my heart, my heart, my heart."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/i-said-it-is-my-first-language-my-mother-tongue-my-family-my-people/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/religion-is-about-responsibility-to-a-community-and-a-tradition/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“How is it we come through the most difficult miles?  Do we come silent or singing?  Do we come in company, or do we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/how-is-it-we-come-through-the-most-difficult-miles-do-we-come-silent/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [“You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/you-see-that-that-big-messy-spiral-of-people-moving-trying-to-find/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

> [How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-brooks/how-badly-i-wanted-to-belong-as-i-had-when-i-was-a-young-mormon-girl/)

[Joanna Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-brooks/)

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