Deluge Quotes

“Because a person can fail another person and still do right by them. It happens all the time. This is the way of relationships. This is the way of family.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Deluge

“Steppie had always been that kind of man, a person who could read between the lines. A father who could spot a child’s confusion, then ease it. You waited for him to work his magic now, to slow the deluge you felt moving toward you.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Deluge

“That so often in life, there is no either-or. That as much as the mind might fight the idea, the heart makes room for opposing truths.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Deluge

“The truth was rarely told in its entirety. The full story of your origins did not spring up clean and cool out of the ground, but gurgled and spat and had to be picked clear of the mud like a stranded crayfish, its legs flailing in slow, spindly motion.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Deluge