Lonely Crowds Quotes

“Could a girl ever recover from seeing her father’s imprudence? I didn’t think so.”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel

“The other day I read in a magazine at my doctor’s office about something called trauma. Horrible things happen to you as a child and you never forget them. And they make you act the way you do, make you become an alcoholic or get divorced. I thought, That’s a lot of hog. That can’t be right.” I told him I didn’t know. I had never heard of it. “And I wondered, When Ruth is gone and she looks back, will she see this as a good time or bad time? Was this trauma? Right now, tonight, is it a trauma?”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel