Diane Kumorkavich

“I wondered how you would react when I revealed to you my hidden parts, my ugly parts that don’t do well in the sunlight.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“You were holding all my pieces together, and you were trying to balance them all in your righteous hands.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“I was at the bottom.
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

“I wasn’t saying it didn’t all happen like that, but all of that was included in the chunks of time that had gone missing from my brain. They dropped out somewhere. And if the chunks were round, they would have rolled away. So I was hoping they were bricks and heavy so they stayed in the same spot. I just needed to retrace my steps, if I only could remember where I’d been.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir