Missing Sam Quotes

“Because what are words, these unreliable tools that can be used to conceal, deceive, defraud, betray, distract, mislead? Words crack and splinter like twigs in a storm, under the force of the gale of emotions inside..." - Missing Sam”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam

“Sam had always been so serious and responsible throughout her life, placating and managing her moody, drunk father, that when she cut loose, she was like a candle that had been lit from within. She was incandescent that day.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam

“This is not my tribe. I have spent the last half hour in the company of women who have husbands, uncles, and fathers. I have a father, too, but he rejects the most important thing in my life, even as I reject the most important thing in his.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam

“Love doesn’t give a person permission to control another.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam

“We plant seeds in humble dirt, not in the clouds. And so, we plant ourselves, our messy, flawed selves on this mortal earth, not in the rarefied air of heaven. If we're lucky, something wild and beautiful grows out of that soil.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam

“Words crack and splinter like twigs in a storm, under the force of the gale of emotions churning inside of me. Instead, we talk to each other through our eyes:”
― Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam