Common Decency Quotes

“She thought the capacity of another person to have depicted a pain similar to your own, to have transmuted it into language, implied that eventually there might be the means for you to process it.”
― Susannah Dickey, Common Decency

“Her childhood was a calm one, worthy of being mythologized not for what was happening beyond the walls of their house but for what was happening within them, for the specificities of her small, resected world.”
― Susannah Dickey, Common Decency