13 Quotes by Kimberly King Parsons

It's quite possible my daughter will disagree with this version altogether. She might say that I've put words into her mouth. Show me a mother who hasn't.

Every mother rages sometimes--this is called "parenting.

Being alone never bothered me back then. I'd step out into my yard at any hour with a cold beer and a feeling like I could walk as far as I'd like and be just fine, nobody to hurt me, nobody I could use to hurt myself.

He listens to her stories, really listens. Later he tucks her in, traces a cursive message on her bare back when she can't sleep: I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.

You are sweet and smart and definitely not extremely strange. You are lovable and deserving of love--everybody is.

I ask her: Wouldn't it be easier to just give death a different name?

It's me, it's me, it's me.

Longing wakes me up and keeps me up. Gimcrack ache is a Southern thing, Suki says, but I'd never heard the expression before. It's the feeling you get when you see a bauble on somebody, a cheap necklace or a stickpin so pretty you'd do anything to steal it.

There is a not-small part of me that can't help but see a thing through to its disappointing end.