Manhattan, When I Was Young Quotes

“Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.”
― Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young

“If I was not really at home with everyone, neither was I a stranger to anyone, and if all my acquaintances were slightly skewed, well then, so was I.”
― Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young