What the Waves Know Quotes

“I was coming to understand that my mother did not hate me, only that some days, she hated loving me.”
― Tamara Valentine, What the Waves Know

“You could get the words all straight and neat between the lines, but the meaning was in the way they zigzagged toward a person when you gave them life.”
― Tamara Valentine, What the Waves Know

“Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."
--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry”
― Tamara Valentine, What the Waves Know