Can You Feel This? Quotes

“You’d never worn your trauma like a badge. It was something you carried alone.”
― Julie Orringer, Can You Feel This?

“Everything else still unknown. Somehow you have to do it. Somehow you have to survive.”
― Julie Orringer, Can You Feel This?

“Everything, you understand, will threaten the baby’s life forever. Somehow you have to survive this.”
― Julie Orringer, Can You Feel This?

“a newborn with a mother whose mother came undone.”
― Julie Orringer, Can You Feel This?

“But if you’d told him, wouldn’t it confirm what you most wanted to hide? That there was something wrong with you? Not that you were crazy, maybe. You knew you weren’t your mother. But what might happen once the baby was born? New mothers lost it all the time. Ordinary ones, who didn’t carry what you carried.”
― Julie Orringer, Can You Feel This?