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“I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.”

Strength Trauma Broken Bones

Book:Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

“I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.”

Truth Lies Drinking Alcohol Liquor Sorrows Drowning Sorrows

Book:Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

“Children see God every day; they just don't call it that. It's the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It's the sweet whispers of sweet gum trees and the sounds riding the tops of honeysuckle-scented breezes. Children feel God stuffed into brown fluffy dogs with stitches strong enough to withstand a good squeeze, and on the lips of round women who can't get enough sugar from Chocolate. I began to believe that God is us and nature, beauty and love, mystery and majesty, everything right and good.”

Love Children God Religion Nature Beauty Mystery Goodness Majesty

Book:Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

“I don't know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an enveloping sorrow, a creeping nothingness that coils itself around you like a stiff wire.”

Life Change Trauma Emptiness Nothingness

Book:Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

“It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes.”

Age Sorrows Buildings

Book:Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir