“Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.” WayHeartCharacterHelpingMotherUnderstandingNovelDaughterComplicatedLegacyWho We AreInsightfulQuestsWashingMother DaughterIlluminating Author:Carolyn Parkhurst
“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.” GivingHeartMomentsDreamDarkSleepColorOur DreamsDark Colors Book:The Dogs of Babel Source: The Dogs of Babel
“It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.” HeartTwoUseSecretBehindsFistsTwo Hearts Book:The Dogs of Babel Source: The Dogs of Babel
“Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.” KnowsHeartTwoEyeTodayMy OwnKnownTakenStonesFleshYesterdayGreyClayGrey Eyes Book:The Dogs of Babel: A Novel Source: The Dogs of Babel: A Novel
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.” ThinkingYearsHeartPersonsStillsPainLyingNextBloodHairBedYears AgoBreathsBlueRoundsBetrayalFleshTiedAcheShamefulFingertips Author:Carolyn Parkhurst
