She's Come Undone Quotes

"Oh, my mother works," I told Jeanette when she suggested we go over to my house instead of hers. (2.9)

Something about Anthony Jr.'s life and death inside ma had changed her in some unfixable way. She'd grown herself a big rear end and developed an unpredictable facial twitch. (2.9)

Ma kept crying and apologizing. (1.23)

When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and the Daddy told me they had made it with their bodies. (1.42)

When I was ten and a half, my family moved to Treetop Acres. (2.1)

In one of my earliest memories, my mother and I are on the front porch […] watching two delivery men carry our brand-new television set up the steps. (1.1)

[Ma] is not the type to tell other people their business, men particularly. (1.2)

I wanted my father to be at home laughing with Ma on Saturday afternoons, instead of with Mrs. Masciotte. (1.38)