What I Remember Most Quotes

“You don’t know how much you need a mother nagging over you until you don’t have it.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“I’ve never felt young. People talk about a carefree youth, and I have no idea what they’re talking about. I was never carefree, I never felt . . . youthful. My goal was to survive.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“I’ll tell you, between the women you’re in jail with and the women you’re at the supermarket with, there’s not much difference. In fact, sometimes the only difference between them and you is that they had a weapon available when their life turned upside down.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“set the vases out and decided I’d spring for flowers. I was relieved to my core to have a home. After weeks of car living, I am still getting pleasure out of my toilet. Not in a weird way. And don’t get me started on my shower.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“kicked my legs under my blankets. I wiggled with my arms flailing in the air. I might be going to jail, but I was no longer living in my car and I had not one but two jobs. Two.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“My art, my creativity, was coming back, too, all in a rush, as if it had gotten stuck in my homelessness.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“Being broke never gets easier. The poor girl mentality has never left me. Even when I was living in that obnoxious semimansion with Covey, driving a $50,000 car that he gave me, and wearing designer clothes and heels and a bag that cost five hundred dollars that, again, Covey bought and insisted I use over my twenty-dollar black purse, I was poor in my head.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“It can bring on heavy sadness and sharp despair and it does not change the past.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“nostalgia, the “if onlys” can be dangerous. It”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“We laughed the type of laugh you laugh when you want to cry and fear has its claws in you and is pulling you down but you’re keeping your chin up and holding it together because if you don’t, you’ll be flat wiped-out.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“He sees me based on what I can do for him, not who I am. He has an image of me and he doesn’t want to see beneath the image. You can’t be with a man who is unwilling or unable to see the real you.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“Don’t ya ever get too big for your britches or someone’s gonna bust your britches wide open and then they’ll find out you got a butt like everybody else. Nothing special about it.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most

“It was one of those moments in life where you have to stop. You have to put aside all the problems, all the stress, all the worries, and be in that moment. Be happy. Be grateful. Be glad to be alive.”
― Cathy Lamb, What I Remember Most