“I had a few pricks of conscience- seeing Henry's pajama bottoms hanging forlornly from a peg in our bedroom, his comb on he dresser, a stray white hair on his pillow- but real shame and regret were absent. In their… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular.” — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“Daddy shook Pappy's hand, then Henry's, then hugged the children. At last he turned to me. Softly, in a voice meant for my ears along, he said, "When you were a year old and you came down with rubella, the doctor told us you were likely to die of it. Said he didn't expect you'd live another forty-eight hours. Your… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share
When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share
“If God is the Creator, if God englobes every single thing in the universe, then God is everything, and everything is God. God is the earth and the sky, and the tree planted in the earth under the sky, and the bird in the tree, and the worm in the beak of the bird, and the dirt in the stomach… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share
“I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
“But I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I am Born," you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share
