The Tell (Oprah's Book Club)

by Amy Griffin

Denial is not a switch that can be turned off and on. Denial is a glass case that must be shattered before you realize you were trapped inside it in the first place.

What really mattered was that I cultivate the credentials that would make someone like me, that I become salable to the world of men who would determine my worth.

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.

You have to take care of yourself, and the result of that work may be that others are helped, but first you have to address your own needs.”

an Adrienne Rich poem that he loved: “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”