Our Andromeda Quotes

“How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“Where can we
go if not to each other,
resenting every step?”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“What if all possible
pain was only the grief of truth?”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“I've been melted into something
too easy to spill. I make more
and more of myself in order

to make more and more of the baby.
He takes it, this making. And somehow
he's made more of me, too.”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“Secret, smug believers! God never gives you
more than you can bear, they like to say, as if
the strong should be punished for their strength:

We can bear it. So we got it.
But what about my baby? How weak does
a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“be strange to yourself
in your love, your grief”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence?”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda