I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

Wally Lamb
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I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything. She is just my mother and I’d rather not know what she knows about me.

I don’t want to hear that my father was a no-account drunk and that he never loved me, that my mother went through hell raising me alone, that I wasn’t even mine until we divorced and I left my father’s house for good. But what if she tells me all of those things and more? What if my life is actually worse than I thought?

Source: I Know This Much Is True

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