Heidi W. Durrow

The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle…

— Heidi W. Durrow

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

— Heidi W. Durrow

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes…

— Heidi W. Durrow

“Math can explain the reason there’s a one out of four chance that I’d have blue eyes. But it doesn’t explain why…

— Heidi W. Durrow

“Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air.…

— Heidi W. Durrow

“Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in…

— Heidi W. Durrow

“We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don’t belong in the same sentence.”

— Heidi W. Durrow

“I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that’s the key.”

— Heidi W. Durrow

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

— Heidi W. Durrow

“But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see…

— Heidi W. Durrow

It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people…

— Heidi W. Durrow

“We lie to ourselves in many ways; we write down only what we want to understand and what we want to see.”

— Heidi W. Durrow

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may…

— Heidi W. Durrow

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

— Heidi W. Durrow