Where the Watermelons Grow Quotes

“You might have to live with this fear inside you for a long time.”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children

“What I wanted was a cure—not something that would work for just a year or two at a time, like Mama’s medicines. Something that would heal forever, so we never had to worry again.”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children

“Her words were like warm honey, thick and sweet with love and pride.”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children

“I hadn’t been sticky and salty, my hair clinging to my skin all around my head till I wanted to cut it as short as Daddy’s just”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children

“No sickness in the world could make my mama’s love for us less real. And none of us had to get through any of it on our own.”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children

“It was going to be okay, because even if I didn’t have my own mama right now, I had a life—and a town—full of other mamas who were looking out for me.”
― Cindy Baldwin, Where the Watermelons Grow: An Award-Honored Story about a Daughter's Love, Mental Illness, and Acceptance for Children