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Top 30 Sarah M. Broom Quotes (2024 Update)

Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Remembering is a chair that it is hard to sit still in.”

1. “Remembering is a chair that it is hard to sit still in.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Who has the rights to the story of a place? Are these rights earned, bought, fought and died for? Or are they given? Are they automatic, like an assumption? Self-renewing? Are these rights a token of citizenship belonging to those who stay in the place or to those who leave and come back to it? Does the act of leaving relinquish one’s rights to the story of a place? Who stays gone? Who can afford to return?”

2. “Who has the rights to the story of a place? Are these rights earned, bought, fought and died for? Or are they given? Are they automatic, like an assumption? Self-renewing? Are these rights a token of citizenship belonging to those who stay in the place or to those who leave and come back to it? Does the act of leaving relinquish one’s rights to the story of a place? Who stays gone? Who can afford to return?”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Distance lends perspective, but it can also shade, misinterpret.”

3. “Distance lends perspective, but it can also shade, misinterpret.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “The mythology of New Orleans – that it is always the place for a good time; that its citizens are the happiest people alive, willing to smile, dance, cook, and entertain for you; that it is a progressive city open to whimsy and change – can sometimes suffocate the people who live and suffer under the place’s burden, burying them within layers and layers of signifiers, making it impossible to truly get at what is dysfunctional about the city.”

4. “The mythology of New Orleans – that it is always the place for a good time; that its citizens are the happiest people alive, willing to smile, dance, cook, and entertain for you; that it is a progressive city open to whimsy and change – can sometimes suffocate the people who live and suffer under the place’s burden, burying them within layers and layers of signifiers, making it impossible to truly get at what is dysfunctional about the city.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “The things we have forgotten are housed. Our soul is an abode and by remembering houses and rooms, we learn to abide within ourselves. Gaston Bachelard.”

5. “The things we have forgotten are housed. Our soul is an abode and by remembering houses and rooms, we learn to abide within ourselves. Gaston Bachelard.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “New Orleans humidity is like a mood. TO say to someone “It’s humid today” is to comment on the mind-set.”

6. “New Orleans humidity is like a mood. TO say to someone “It’s humid today” is to comment on the mind-set.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “My siblings were all grown, most of them married, returning to the Yellow House for visits and for the lows, the in-between times natural to every life. Troy had left for marriage and had three children, but he, too, had come back after divorce and was living again in the crown of the house where he had grown up.”

7. “My siblings were all grown, most of them married, returning to the Yellow House for visits and for the lows, the in-between times natural to every life. Troy had left for marriage and had three children, but he, too, had come back after divorce and was living again in the crown of the house where he had grown up.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “No one can know now. He was always a young-acting old man; she seemed always a grown young woman. Mom would say, I love you, Simon. I said I love you Simon. When he stayed silent, she pressed. You don’t love me back? “You’re my beautiful, pretty little wife,” he would always say. It was not enough, no, but nothing ever was.”

8. “No one can know now. He was always a young-acting old man; she seemed always a grown young woman. Mom would say, I love you, Simon. I said I love you Simon. When he stayed silent, she pressed. You don’t love me back? “You’re my beautiful, pretty little wife,” he would always say. It was not enough, no, but nothing ever was.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “For the longest time, I couldn’t bear to hear his voice. This is such a difficult thing to write, to be that close to someone who you cannot bear to look at, who you are afraid of, who you are worried will hurt you, even inadvertently, especially because you are his family and you will allow him to get away with it.”

9. “For the longest time, I couldn’t bear to hear his voice. This is such a difficult thing to write, to be that close to someone who you cannot bear to look at, who you are afraid of, who you are worried will hurt you, even inadvertently, especially because you are his family and you will allow him to get away with it.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Water has a perfect memory,” Toni Morrison has said, “and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

10. “Water has a perfect memory,” Toni Morrison has said, “and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears us up. Without that physical structure, we are the house that bears itself up. I was now the house.”

11. “When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears us up. Without that physical structure, we are the house that bears itself up. I was now the house.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Don’t tell stories” when she means don’t tell lies. I keep trying to know the difference.”

12. “Don’t tell stories” when she means don’t tell lies. I keep trying to know the difference.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “And she knew, above all, how to work, which is always the beginning of fashioning a self.”

13. “And she knew, above all, how to work, which is always the beginning of fashioning a self.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “My growing-up world contains five points on a map, like five fingers on a spread hand. This world of mine, it must be said outright, is a blur. I can see, but only up close. This.”

14. “My growing-up world contains five points on a map, like five fingers on a spread hand. This world of mine, it must be said outright, is a blur. I can see, but only up close. This.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “She was contained but occasionally mercurial. She could go off on you in a split second. When the presentation of the body stands in for all the qualities the world claims you cannot possess, some people call you elegant. Grandmother was that, yes, but sometimes elegance is just willpower and grace, a way to keep the flailing parts of the self together.”

15. “She was contained but occasionally mercurial. She could go off on you in a split second. When the presentation of the body stands in for all the qualities the world claims you cannot possess, some people call you elegant. Grandmother was that, yes, but sometimes elegance is just willpower and grace, a way to keep the flailing parts of the self together.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Shame is a slow creeping. The most powerful things are quietest, if you think about it. Like water.”

16. “Shame is a slow creeping. The most powerful things are quietest, if you think about it. Like water.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “That was the story coming out of city hall, the small-print narrative on the full-page advertisements that appeared in glossy local magazines. Except none of these projections would ever come true. New Orleans would not hold steady, not in the least. The city’s population reached its apex in 1960. But no one knew that then.”

17. “That was the story coming out of city hall, the small-print narrative on the full-page advertisements that appeared in glossy local magazines. Except none of these projections would ever come true. New Orleans would not hold steady, not in the least. The city’s population reached its apex in 1960. But no one knew that then.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Goody could not shake, which Ivory Mae understood made her highly significant, to Uncle Goody at least. “Where Old Forty-One?” he would always say. Forty-One! The year of my birthday was what he called me. Here come Old Forty-One. I used to like it. I used to get so happy. It paid to be his.”

18. “Goody could not shake, which Ivory Mae understood made her highly significant, to Uncle Goody at least. “Where Old Forty-One?” he would always say. Forty-One! The year of my birthday was what he called me. Here come Old Forty-One. I used to like it. I used to get so happy. It paid to be his.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “You too much for us now,” he said searching my eyes. I laughed it off, looked into the ground, but it hurt the way true things do.”

19. “You too much for us now,” he said searching my eyes. I laughed it off, looked into the ground, but it hurt the way true things do.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Even at Hoffman Junior High School, Ivory Mae resisted working in the garden because only the girls were required to do so. Look like I was always in a beating way. Ivory Mae was sassy mouthed. “She’ll answer back if it kills her,” Grandmother was always saying. Elaine was the tomboy, playing marbles, climbing trees, breaking her collarbone and leg. “I was a whip.” She could fight the boys, too, defending her baby sister who she thought “let people walk all over her.”

20. “Even at Hoffman Junior High School, Ivory Mae resisted working in the garden because only the girls were required to do so. Look like I was always in a beating way. Ivory Mae was sassy mouthed. “She’ll answer back if it kills her,” Grandmother was always saying. Elaine was the tomboy, playing marbles, climbing trees, breaking her collarbone and leg. “I was a whip.” She could fight the boys, too, defending her baby sister who she thought “let people walk all over her.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “When you are babiest in a family with eleven older points of view, eleven disparate rallying cries, eleven demanding and pay-attention-to-me voices – all variations of the communal story – developing your own becomes a matter of survival. There can be, in this scenario, no neutral ground.”

21. “When you are babiest in a family with eleven older points of view, eleven disparate rallying cries, eleven demanding and pay-attention-to-me voices – all variations of the communal story – developing your own becomes a matter of survival. There can be, in this scenario, no neutral ground.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Zora Neale Hurston said, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

22. “Zora Neale Hurston said, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “New Orleans humidity is a mood.”

23. “New Orleans humidity is a mood.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “It is a terrible thing to see love misfire in a million different directions...”

24. “It is a terrible thing to see love misfire in a million different directions...”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not.”

25. “We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Mom longed for what now came to feel impractical, what wishes are made of.”

26. “Mom longed for what now came to feel impractical, what wishes are made of.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Shame is a slow creeping at first, a violent implosion later.”

27. “Shame is a slow creeping at first, a violent implosion later.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “She favored the moment, knew how remembering the past could elicit despair.”

28. “She favored the moment, knew how remembering the past could elicit despair.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “Remembering hurts, but forgetting is Herculean.”

29. “Remembering hurts, but forgetting is Herculean.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “There would come a time when I would know very well the man who would stay in that house long after its charm had faded. Everything that I am writing here now leads to that.”

30. “There would come a time when I would know very well the man who would stay in that house long after its charm had faded. Everything that I am writing here now leads to that.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “The house’s disappearance from the landscape was not different from my father’s absence. His was a sudden erasure for my mother and siblings, a prolonged and present absence for me, an intriguing story with an ever-expanding middle that never drew to a close. The house held my father inside of it, preserved; it bore his traces. As long as the house stood, containing these remnants, my father was not yet gone. And then suddenly, he was.”

31. “The house’s disappearance from the landscape was not different from my father’s absence. His was a sudden erasure for my mother and siblings, a prolonged and present absence for me, an intriguing story with an ever-expanding middle that never drew to a close. The house held my father inside of it, preserved; it bore his traces. As long as the house stood, containing these remnants, my father was not yet gone. And then suddenly, he was.”

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Sarah M. Broom Quote: “I become Sarah on the first day of kindergarten.”

32. “I become Sarah on the first day of kindergarten.”

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