"I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted ..."
- Gabrielle Hamilton
"How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?"
"My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then."
"every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies,” I ..."
"This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat."
"I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be."
"I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth of a..."
"Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life."
"[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it."
"It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, an..."