Perish Quotes

“Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything.”
― LaToya Watkins, Perish

“We ride in silence, except for Grandaddy's humming. I doubt he's ever been in the front seat of a police cruiser, but he's not in awe. He's humming what sounds like a blues song, and I don't know what to say to break the absence of words. I've never been close to him. It was always her. Always me and her.

And I wonder why. Wonder what it is I love about her. Wonder what she loved about me. She was my focal point before I ever realized we all needed one. My hope in her forgiveness is what has carried me across all these years. All I've ever wanted to do is make things right with her. Feel like making things right with her might heal me.”
― LaToya Watkins, Perish

“No matter how you look at it, everything come to one promise," he says. "Every living thing . . ." He uses his whole body to sigh. "These bodies. They got to perish, and it's a whole lot of mercy in that.”
― LaToya Watkins, Perish

“Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it. I can't make the people I love no different. I can't change the past. All I can do is love myself and my kids enough to move forward. Love my people where they is and fight like hell not to let nobody else mistakes—nobody else pain—break me ever again.”
― LaToya Watkins, Perish