Echoes Quotes

“My parents threw out the diary when they found it. They didn’t want me keeping secrets in my room, never mind that a room and a girl will keep secrets even without pages to store them.”
― Ellen Datlow, Echoes

“what the magazines called blended families, because that made step-parents and step-brothers and step-sisters sound sweet, like a smoothie rather than something out of the Brothers Grimm.”
― Ellen Datlow, Echoes

“The pain has lessened with age, but never goes away. Now the doctors give it a name—endometriosis. Their tone when talking to me is always one of judgmental solemnity, as if this sickness is a curse given to me because I never found a husband, instead of a curse that prevented me from getting one. Or maybe I have always just imagined this in their voices.”
― Ellen Datlow, Echoes