“By now both mother and daughter were in a good humor and able to joke, mother sat up in bed and chuckled from time to time; they were temperamentally akin and shared the blessed ability to suppress dark memories.” Mother And DaughterDark Memories Book:The Women at the Pump Source: The Women at the Pump
“On her darkest days, the memories of the splintered floorboards crept in, along with the drip, drip, drip of old plumbing that had never been fixed. She still remembered the shouts from the others in the crew and how the mingle of voices was at first familiar and over time had grown as distant as the sea.” PastFriendshipMemoriesDarknessLonelinessVoicesDark MemoriesPast Wounds Book:Forged Contracts Source: Forged Contracts