The Tell (Oprah's Book Club)

by Amy Griffin

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. —Adrienne Rich

It was a reminder that multiple stories could be true at the same time, that we select our narratives in accordance with how honest we want to be and how honest we can be with ourselves.

I can only tell you what happens to people who run from pain: They never actually live.”

“Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will direct our life and we will call it fate.”

On the interstate, the billboards alternated between antiabortion campaigns and ads for adult video stores.

Remembering isn’t something you do just once. Remembering is a practice. It is something you have to be brave enough to do over and over again.

You can’t have light without the darkness. You have to feel all of it in order to feel any of it.”