“I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself.” — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“I thought of my picture in the Castle. But what would future girls see when they looked at the photograph during their daily comings… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“Danger presented itself, every girl knew, from within the family. But we were no one, nothing without our families.” — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“I knew what it was like to want, to desire so intensely you were willing to throw everything else into its fire.” — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“Though Yonahlossee was an odd place to me, it was quickly turning familiar. Not missing home had at first seemed inconceivable, but I understood… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“There had been whispers that her family was suffering financially--suffering, as if lack of money was a wound. Which it was, the worst kind.” — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
“We learned in class, were lectured to about wars and famines, ancient kings and queens, the habits of presidents. But the lectures were cursory.… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
