I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.
He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
Life ain't the movies.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)