Dorothy Allison

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#lying #truth #lie

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#mother #parent-aging #age

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#women #inspirational

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#writing-craft

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#religion

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#family

People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#truth #biography

He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#love #love

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#comes #cracks #everything #open

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#lies #meaning #piece #truth #turns