Feeding Ghosts Quotes

“But what do you do when trauma distorts love into something cloying and fraught? Unresolved ghosts just grow stronger across generations, destroying children with the very things their parents swore to save them from.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

“My mother learned how to grow a life around her damage. But beneath the surface, her ghosts seethed in the chasms ripped through her core.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

“She thought if she could get us out of China, we'd be safe.
But she couldn't outrun her mental illness. It was waiting to devour us.
She always was a drowning woman trying desperately to throw me on the shore so I would not drown with her.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir