The Drowning Season Quotes

“She shuffled her feet as she was told that she had been taken in by the family as an infant, and that every family in town without a daughter adopted a girl infant or child. She was raised to inherit the laundry and the housekeeping, the cooking and the sorrow, and the kindling of the fire in the early morning when no one else would even think of getting out from beneath the mountains of blankets and quilts.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season

“she wanted to sit in the dark and whisper all of her fears into an ear which would hold every word like a silver shell.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season