Letting in Air and Light Quotes

“I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“the difficulty of accommodating an erratic family member while protecting young children, which is how my mother would have viewed it – on the real possibilty that Mama brought us to our grandparents’ home only if she knew Bill wouldn’t be there. ” (117)”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“Memory is unreliable; it might as well be fiction.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“Already my memories seem fraudulent, yet they are true to the child I was. Memory is unreliable; it might as well be fiction.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“... through her struggles, Helen must have acquied not only patience, but the serenity that accompanies it when it is real.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“His father’s drunkenness was the bad thread woven into the fabric of the family. It should have been snapped, the way his mother snapped an errant thread as she ran her sewing machine.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“She’s never had an interest in sitting down with Mother, knowing she’s feel trapped by her presence and bound by her threads.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light