Elsewhere Quotes

“He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

“I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women here had always known: We were endangered, but we were dangerous, too; our peril was also our power.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

“Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

“I thought how careless of them, how indulgent, to let their children out of their bodies, while I kept mine secreted away inside me, deprived myself of them to keep them safe.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere