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sneezysleeves 's review for:
The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner
My goal for next year is to read more memoirs because whew! This book is as tragic and heartbreaking as the blurb portrays, and it really gets thrown into high gear at the two-thirds mark with unimaginable devastation. Having a front row seat to humanity by way of peoples’ stories is really such a privilege.
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“As I pulled the covers up and let Micah settle in next to me, I heard Mom's voice in my ears: Children need to get used to being in the dark. She'd repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don't.”
“I wanted nothing more out of life than I did to keep my family together and make sure they were safe. The memory of those days reminds me of how exhausted Ihad been, but my siblings gave my life purpose, they were my bridge from pain to healing, from past to future. They are as much the authors of my survival as I am of theirs.”
“Mom couldn't teach me that because she didn't know herself. She couldn't show me how to be happy, only how to barely survive.”
“All the preaching, all the hours in church memorizing scriptures, how could that mean anything when the community supporting it wouldn't defend the innocence and safety of a child?”
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“As I pulled the covers up and let Micah settle in next to me, I heard Mom's voice in my ears: Children need to get used to being in the dark. She'd repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don't.”
“I wanted nothing more out of life than I did to keep my family together and make sure they were safe. The memory of those days reminds me of how exhausted Ihad been, but my siblings gave my life purpose, they were my bridge from pain to healing, from past to future. They are as much the authors of my survival as I am of theirs.”
“Mom couldn't teach me that because she didn't know herself. She couldn't show me how to be happy, only how to barely survive.”
“All the preaching, all the hours in church memorizing scriptures, how could that mean anything when the community supporting it wouldn't defend the innocence and safety of a child?”