The Bright Years Quotes

“Listen-she looked pointedly at me-I'm the first person you needed, but I'm not the only one or the last. Lisa was a good friend for a time, but she's not the only or the last. She cupped my chin in her hands. You can't control anyone else's choices, but you start with what you're given and then you make your own.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“The mother pants relief, and the midwife guides the father to cut the cord. A protest twists inside me. No! Let them stay together! But this is where it starts. We begin to say goodbye as soon as we say hello. Death is a corollary of birth, and to welcome life is to guarantee loss.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“Babies kill dreams but resurrect family.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“I WISH DAD DIED INSTEAD.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“how every death intensifies every other death.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“One life can be everything”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years