Salt Bones Quotes

“A small town will make monsters everywhere. That part Mal had always understood.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“People need to see a body to grieve well and let go. They need to see the bones.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“Humans hate being in the dark, don’t we?’ Griselda says. ‘We’re such curious animals.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“Intergenerational trauma is like a train leaving the station against our will—it keeps barreling relentlessly down the tracks.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“Her daughter’s body will not be sluiced from the water. She will not salt the earth with her daughter’s bones.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“Mal prefers Amaranta’s version; she calls it the Great Mathematician in the Sky, because, she says, we’re all ones and zeros at the particle level. Give me the strength not to dig my fingers into the black hole
of Mami’s misplaced rage —”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“No hay paz cuando una familia has split itself into pieces, even for one another.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones

“Every moment as a mother has felt like tending a fickle garden. Too little water, and they wilt from neglect—just as Mal did under Mami’s inattention. But just as overwatering a succulent can drown it, too much affection can be a burden.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Salt Bones