Gray Is the New Black Quotes

“The events of that day have acquired the permanence of an old movie, the past captured and frozen. What the two of us wore, and said, all of it, stamped on my brain, frame after frame. But it was a long time ago. The version I’ve held on to all these years may be as fictional as any film. Or it may have happened just like this.”
― Dorothy Rice, Gray Is the New Black

“An otherwise awful day can be borne with equanimity, if my hair looks good.”
― Dorothy Rice, Gray Is the New Black

“Perhaps if he caressed my tummy rolls. Kissed the scars. Stroked the staple marks. Maybe then I could be content with who I’ve become. Maybe. I snorted. Likely I’d push him away. I had long suspected he loves me “anyway.”
― Dorothy Rice, Gray Is the New Black

“Dissatisfaction with the size and shape of my body had been a constant, a tedious subplot to whatever else was going on in my life.”
― Dorothy Rice, Gray Is the New Black

“Time, memory and perspective are not fixed. I imagine I could write these same stories again and again, and that each time a different version would emerge. The past doesn’t change, yet new information can emerge, and our perceptions, how past events affect us and the meaning we ascribe to them, often does. For me, that is the power and purpose of memoir and any personal writing. It holds the promise of as much, or more, discovery, surprise and wonder as any fictional narrative.”
― Dorothy Rice, Gray Is the New Black