The Sound of Gravel Quotes

“Mom couldn’t teach me that because she didn’t know herself. She couldn’t show me how to be happy, only how to barely survive.”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“As I pulled the covers up and let Micah settle in next to me, I heard Mom’s voice in my ears: Children need to get used to being in the dark. She’d repeated that countless times throughout my childhood. No, I thought, they don’t.”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“I wanted nothing more out of life than I did to keep my family together and make sure they were safe. The memory of those days reminds me of how exhausted I had been, but my siblings gave my life purpose, they were my bridge from pain to healing, from past to future. They are as much the authors of my survival as I am of theirs.”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“All the preaching, all the hours in church memorizing scriptures, how could that mean anything when the community supporting it wouldn’t defend the innocence and safety of a child?”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“Would I end up like her, I wondered, shackled to a man who appreciated me so little that the only thing that made me feel loved was attention from my adult son?”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“I'd brought along something that I wanted [Micah] to have: my most treasured stuffed animal, a Rainbow Brite Care Bear. Just as it had once done for me, I hoped the bear would help Micah get used to the dark.”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“She wasn't some monster, she was just another human being who'd gone looking for her life and somehow ended up on the wrong path.”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

“guilty”
― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel

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― Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel