At the Edge of the Haight Quotes

“On the bench, he’d left his phone on top of a folded-up note. “Maddy,” it said, “use this to call us whenever you want. No matter what you think, we care about you. But we both know this: you don’t get to pick your children any more than you get to pick your parents. You will be in my prayers every night when I close my eyes.”
― Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

“I spent so much time with my boys, taking them to soccer games, baseball practice, tossing a ball in the yard, making sure they knew how to say please and thank you. We had dinner every night. Marva sat with them if I was off at the firehouse and watched that they did their homework. I always thought everything was a phase. It would all work out the way it was supposed to. That’s what I told Marva because it was how my life had gone.”
― Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

“People believed what they saw, but it was not the same as what was really there.”
― Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight