33 Quotes by Adrienne Brodeur

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

Did I want meat or fish for dinner? I couldn't decide. Hair up or down? Either. Would I prefer to walk or bike? Neither. I wanted to sleep. It felt as if in making any inconsequential decision, I might choose wrongly and forever close a door; there would go my other life.

Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.

It was as if a lifetime's worth of emotional chutes and trapdoors installed for self-protection decades ago had malfunctioned in a spectacular way.

Blink, and you’ll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you’ll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

I know that no one’s story is simple. And no single story tells the whole truth.

Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand – fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated – in an effort to keep my mother’s secret buried.

All I knew at that moment was I felt lucky. My mother had chosen me, and, together, we were embarking on a great adventure.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.