The Forgetting

by Hannah Beckerman

‘It’s not easy to acknowledge that your parents hated you so much that they wanted to eradicate every trace of you.’

‘My parents always warned me: be careful who you have kids with. Mortgages, joint bank accounts, marriages – you can extricate yourself from all of it. But have a child with someone and you’re linked to them for the rest of your life.’

sometimes being scared of something is precisely the reason you need to do it.

‘I hate to say this, but a man never hurts a woman only once. There’s always a second time.’