Dorothy Allison - Mama Quotes

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Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

Dorothy Allison

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.

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My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

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