No One Gets to Fall Apart Quotes

“there is nothing my mother or I can say that will stop her from being my mother, and where she’s run away to is not a physical place, and so I cannot chase her there or convince her to run back to me.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“Writers on those websites that publish essays purporting to teach other people how to become writers are always asking what fiction can do in the current political moment, and I think now the answer is nothing.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“literary fiction and criticism all churned into the maw of an internet that cannot find a way to commoditize them and so has set about eradicating them under the guise of their being elitist and boring, which they mostly are.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“You become a mother and that’s who you are, my mother used to say to me.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“Everything that was going to happen had happened already, before, and would continue to happen again.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“every boom leads to a bust because we take human nature with us wherever we go.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“The psychologist Resmaa Menakem writes about the embodiment of experience passed down to us, how some memories are handed down not in the form of words but through our skin and our nervous system in ways that bypass language.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“Franz Kafka writes that every person, even the emptiest, is, if one will only look carefully, the center of a tight circle that forms about him here and there.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding

“I learn certain events can trigger illnesses in anyone’s brain that would have otherwise lain dormant for the patients entire lifetime. At any point, any one of us might take a wrong turn and tip over into a false reality. A wrong marriage, a bad break up, a mix up at the DMV and our lives might be different forever.”
― Sarah LaBrie, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir – A New York Times Notable Book of Intergenerational Trauma, Race, and Understanding