Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account:… — Julie Gregory Accounts Copy Share Image
“As long as I'm between home and the clinic I do all right. But out in the real world, I feel like… — Julie Gregory Memoirs Copy Share Image
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. — Julie Gregory Memories Copy Share Image
“I am just a girl, a girl men touch without asking, a girl men disrobe without even seeing her tears.” — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins,… — Julie Gregory Blue sky Copy Share Image
I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks.… — Julie Gregory Broken Copy Share Image
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry… — Julie Gregory Blue Copy Share Image
When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite.… — Julie Gregory Appetite Copy Share Image
“But Dad, you were a grown man, you have got to take responsibility for what you did, too! I mean, you made… — Julie Gregory Grown man Copy Share Image
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk,… — Julie Gregory Book Copy Share Image
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life,… — Julie Gregory Ability Copy Share Image
