She Left Me the Gun Quotes

“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.”
― Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

“This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.”
― Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me