Kathleen Glasgow

Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.

How to Make Friends with the Dark

Sarah Campbell

Maybe I should have been better about seeing her. Seeing Mae-Lynn’s sadness. But you don’t realize what it feels like, this hole, this missing, until it happens to you. 

sharkie

"Thaddy says we're just stories in somebody's book and every time they turn a page, that's when new stuff happens. But I think we're like one of those snow balls. You know, shake'em up and everything and nothing goes back where it was."

"You don't honor your mother by wearing a dress, honey. You honor your mother by remembering her, and holding her dear, right here." She taps her heart.

Sometimes you're hungry, so thirsty for something to fill you up, you've craved it fir so long, but when you finally have it, it hurts going down. It's not a medicine for what ails you. It might just be the thing keeping you sick.

Because what other choice is there, really?

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I want my mom to get up off that fucking table and hug me as hard as she can, even if it hurts me.

The last thing I said to my mom was "Why can't you ever just fucking leave me alone?"

And then it hits me, hard, that she's done precisely that, and forever, really really forever.

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