Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me

by Adrienne Brodeur

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

We all know the adage that one lie begets the next. Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it.

As any magician knows, it is not the smoke and mirrors that trick people; it is that the human mind makes assumptions and misunderstands them as truths.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —SøREN KIERKEGAARD

“You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else’s life,” Margot said.

“You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself,”

“Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final.”