“Rosie wanted her daughter to know who she was before she went out into Nowhere, where terrible things would happen to her. It was hopeless to try to protect a girl--- better you equip her to protect herself. If Dorothy could feel certain of who she was and what she wanted of the world, if she could be confident in her skin, as none of the rest of them had been after a childhood on the island, she could make her way anywhere, do anything.”
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Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist born in 1962. Her works are often set in the rural Michigan, exploring themes of rural life, family relationships, and social issues. Campbell is praised for her unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more
“I know exactly what I'm capable of.”
“She was on a high cliff edge somewhere between laughing and crying and screaming.”
“To take the ‘easy way’ is to walk a path that doesn’t exist to the edge of a cliff that does.”
“Cliffs most love those who come to the very edge of the cliff without their legs shaking!”