30 Quotes by Ami McKay

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings.

Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

Sickness made itself at home in their close, dark rooms, disease thriving in the absence of windows and hope.

American girls never whimper.

If you want to properly tell a story, you have to be willing to write it a thousand ways. And then you must be brave enough to share it with others.

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds.

When do I get to say whatever I wish?” “When it pains you not to,” her mother had replied. “What if I’m too scared?” “All the more reason to speak your mind.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that’s as dear to life as breathing.