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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I knew how to disappear. Sometimes my mother needed me to disappear.”

51. “I knew how to disappear. Sometimes my mother needed me to disappear.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “My friends were usually utterly charmed by my mother – she was her most magnetic around them, or anyone else on the outside really.”

52. “My friends were usually utterly charmed by my mother – she was her most magnetic around them, or anyone else on the outside really.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “That I was an adult who was allowed to be frustrated with her annoyed her whether she verbalized it or not.”

53. “That I was an adult who was allowed to be frustrated with her annoyed her whether she verbalized it or not.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “Something cracked, and now I didn’t get to delight in the magic, but instead had to pretend like the adults. I’d done it to myself. In search of my shadow, I’d lost some of my childish wonder, and hadn’t realized it was a no-trade deal.”

54. “Something cracked, and now I didn’t get to delight in the magic, but instead had to pretend like the adults. I’d done it to myself. In search of my shadow, I’d lost some of my childish wonder, and hadn’t realized it was a no-trade deal.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “It wasn’t lost on me that I mostly spoke my truth in the spaces where my family was absent.”

55. “It wasn’t lost on me that I mostly spoke my truth in the spaces where my family was absent.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I was sewn into his regrets.”

56. “I was sewn into his regrets.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I wondered how many people I knew had already learned how to talk with God, and I wondered why God would only give a person one thing to say to him. Wouldn’t that get boring? Church was already boring enough.”

57. “I wondered how many people I knew had already learned how to talk with God, and I wondered why God would only give a person one thing to say to him. Wouldn’t that get boring? Church was already boring enough.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I knew I couldn’t have the sunrise or its colors for my own. Some things were too precious not to be shared. They just had to happen, and you just had to make sure you were there when they did, and then, you were part of something with everyone else who showed up at the right time.”

58. “I knew I couldn’t have the sunrise or its colors for my own. Some things were too precious not to be shared. They just had to happen, and you just had to make sure you were there when they did, and then, you were part of something with everyone else who showed up at the right time.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel watched. My mistakes, however big or small, to the people around me, were just that; mistakes.”

59. “For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel watched. My mistakes, however big or small, to the people around me, were just that; mistakes.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I couldn’t, and I wouldn’t, tell on myself. Self-preservation had already been imprinted upon me as a requirement. Honesty was not always the best policy. Grown-ups would tell you it was important to tell the truth, and when you did, everything would work out, but I knew this wasn’t the case.”

60. “I couldn’t, and I wouldn’t, tell on myself. Self-preservation had already been imprinted upon me as a requirement. Honesty was not always the best policy. Grown-ups would tell you it was important to tell the truth, and when you did, everything would work out, but I knew this wasn’t the case.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “Living with my grandmother and her father in the fields of Missouri, I learned to think only of myself for hours at a time. Spending half a day alone, free of the company of people who would distract me from my being, I learned to think about who I was, who I was becoming, and what I wanted.”

61. “Living with my grandmother and her father in the fields of Missouri, I learned to think only of myself for hours at a time. Spending half a day alone, free of the company of people who would distract me from my being, I learned to think about who I was, who I was becoming, and what I wanted.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “The loudest voice belongs to my brother, before he could properly pronounce my name, calling for me. “Hashy? Where are you? Where is my Hashy?” My brother loved me and made it so easy to believe I was good.”

62. “The loudest voice belongs to my brother, before he could properly pronounce my name, calling for me. “Hashy? Where are you? Where is my Hashy?” My brother loved me and made it so easy to believe I was good.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “For the rest of my life, I would seek out the library the way some search for the soft light of a chapel in the dark.”

63. “For the rest of my life, I would seek out the library the way some search for the soft light of a chapel in the dark.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “You’ll learn to gut a fish like a man. Then, you won’t need one.”

64. “You’ll learn to gut a fish like a man. Then, you won’t need one.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “Grandpa sat at the table, sorting the edible parts of an almost-dead frog. His fingers bent and popped its sinewy limbs, separating the muscle from bone. The nearly departed performed a table dance for me. I was unimpressed. I wanted to be anywhere else in the world.”

65. “Grandpa sat at the table, sorting the edible parts of an almost-dead frog. His fingers bent and popped its sinewy limbs, separating the muscle from bone. The nearly departed performed a table dance for me. I was unimpressed. I wanted to be anywhere else in the world.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “Before my teacher showed me the bright pastels of morning light, I made friends with the dark in my grandmother’s bedroom.”

66. “Before my teacher showed me the bright pastels of morning light, I made friends with the dark in my grandmother’s bedroom.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “It was easier to laugh at the jokes after you’d forgotten the pain.”

67. “It was easier to laugh at the jokes after you’d forgotten the pain.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I decided to pretend to be good, the kind of good that seemed to be best. The silent kind.”

68. “I decided to pretend to be good, the kind of good that seemed to be best. The silent kind.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “When I turned out the light, nobody guessed I was in there telling myself stories, building safe spaces to go inside my head. They would walk right by me, never knowing I’d been there beside them in the dark.”

69. “When I turned out the light, nobody guessed I was in there telling myself stories, building safe spaces to go inside my head. They would walk right by me, never knowing I’d been there beside them in the dark.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I couldn’t believe she said that! I sure did whoop her ass that day.” My mother’s face would split into the smile I rarely saw.”

70. “I couldn’t believe she said that! I sure did whoop her ass that day.” My mother’s face would split into the smile I rarely saw.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “The library felt too good to be true. All those books, on all those shelves, and I could just pluck them out, one by one, find an empty chair, and read, and read, and read.”

71. “The library felt too good to be true. All those books, on all those shelves, and I could just pluck them out, one by one, find an empty chair, and read, and read, and read.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “It made sense it would take someone I’d never noticed who came out of nowhere to love me.”

72. “It made sense it would take someone I’d never noticed who came out of nowhere to love me.”

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Ashley C. Ford Quote: “The only male teacher on the playground scooped the kid up in his arms, and ran to the school nurse. The rest of us stood around wondering what had happened to him. As usual, the adults told us nothing. One teacher blew her whistle at those of us still standing in a circle around the place he’d once stood. “You’re wasting time!” she yelled. “He’s gone. Go play.”

73. “The only male teacher on the playground scooped the kid up in his arms, and ran to the school nurse. The rest of us stood around wondering what had happened to him. As usual, the adults told us nothing. One teacher blew her whistle at those of us still standing in a circle around the place he’d once stood. “You’re wasting time!” she yelled. “He’s gone. Go play.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “My mama encouraged us to sing our hearts open. There was music when we woke up, music in the car, music when we cleaned, music at family get-togethers.”

74. “My mama encouraged us to sing our hearts open. There was music when we woke up, music in the car, music when we cleaned, music at family get-togethers.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “Truthfully, I’d been reading for school or to keep up with conversation for a long time. It felt good to read toward answers to the questions in my head, a familiar source of solace I hadn’t tapped in too long. It made me miss home even though I didn’t want to be there.”

75. “Truthfully, I’d been reading for school or to keep up with conversation for a long time. It felt good to read toward answers to the questions in my head, a familiar source of solace I hadn’t tapped in too long. It made me miss home even though I didn’t want to be there.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “I stared at them, doing my best to ignore the small splashing sound coming from an old white bucket next to the refrigerator. He’d caught a catfish earlier the same day. It had not wanted to be caught.”

76. “I stared at them, doing my best to ignore the small splashing sound coming from an old white bucket next to the refrigerator. He’d caught a catfish earlier the same day. It had not wanted to be caught.”

— Ashley C. Ford

Ashley C. Ford Quote: “It doesn’t take long for children to teach themselves not to want what they’ve already learned they won’t have.”

77. “It doesn’t take long for children to teach themselves not to want what they’ve already learned they won’t have.”

— Ashley C. Ford

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