The Mothers Quotes

“I had the worst feeling, when I hung up, that I had missed the purpose of our conversation, that we both had. We had been apart for so long and no longer knew how to speak, other than as strangers. How are you feeling? we said, but what we meant was, Where are you? who are you now? Are you still in there?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, The Mothers

“When had I stopped disparaging my parents’ way of life and had instead begun to covet it?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, The Mothers