Bandit Quotes

“I was fine. And not. Like most people.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn't about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“Everyone lives alone in families. Everyone goes alone into action, love, and work. Sometimes, it's why we work. Everyone goes alone into sickness, too.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“the ache of the now-you, which feels like the only you when you want something”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“But I am wincing, and somehow look already defeated. Like a nonbeliever already, at six years old.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“One survival technique is to get small. When resources are thin and you must stay where you are, as you must as a child, it helps to stay invisible.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“luck, selfishness, and privilege dressed to look like honest hard work”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“It's a question, I realize, that's borne out of a framework of quiet childhood neglect, the kind that threads no one cares through a child’s soft skull until it glazes over every little brain spark and network.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

“Ford, GM, Chrysler: God, Holy Spirit, Christ. We lived at their feet.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir