7 Quotes by Molly Brodak

Everyone lives alone in families. Everyone goes alone into action, love, and work. Sometimes, it's why we work. Everyone goes alone into sickness, too.

One survival technique is to get small. When resources are thin and you must stay where you are, as you must as a child, it helps to stay invisible.

Ford, GM, Chrysler: God, Holy Spirit, Christ. We lived at their feet.

There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn't about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits.

I was fine. And not. Like most people.

There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn’t about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits.

But I am wincing, and somehow look already defeated. Like a nonbeliever already, at six years old.