To the Moon and Back Quotes

“It struck me then how much time she must have spent as a mother, how much of her motherhood, pretending not to feel things.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“How easy it would be—or at least how possible, looking how I looked—to let that part of me fall away? To, absurd as it sounded even to me, opt-out? To be an astronaut—to be myself—without the weight of everything that came before.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“She nodded so subtly as she passed, like we were both in the cartel, and the cartel was gay.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“Every year of my new adulthood, I thought, I would choose something, and I would un-choose something else, and the outline of that other woman I hadn’t chosen to become would stand close to me, breathing softly at my shoulder, her hand gentle on the small of my back.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“I’m strongly considering a PhD, sir,” I said. “That’s wonderful,” he said. “Ambitious!” Della had warned me that “ambitious” wasn’t a compliment. Especially for a girl.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“I used to think my mother was self-conscious and shallow, that she would stop at nothing to belong. Not realizing—not for a very long time—the strength it takes to say what you want. The ambition of wanting a certain life, of demanding it.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“Every person who loved me loved me in a certain way”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back

“I remember our mother pulling off the highway into dark towns, buying biscuits at the drive-through with small bills in a rubber band, pulled from under the driver’s seat. Kayla slept and I ate three biscuits, hers and mine and our mother’s, too. Our mother, who cried silently behind the steering wheel from Dallas to Plano to Sherman to McAlester. I practiced reading highway signs. Our mother helped me sound them out, until she didn’t.”
― Eliana Ramage, To the Moon and Back