The Unmaking of June Farrow Quotes

“I couldn't stop thinking that where we stood was the center of something, a place that created the kind of gravity that made galaxies.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“You may have ruined my life, June. But first, you gave me one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“They fit together like puzzle pieces, and the thought made a pain erupt inside of me that I could hardly bear. This was the field that I had planted. With my very own hands. And then I'd left it all to rot.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“[He] was the kind of handsome that was carved from forests and rivers. He had the look of someone who'd spent his life in the sun, hands in the dirt. Every color, curve, and angle of him was shaped with it.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“And then I spoke my vows into the summer wind. That I'd love him forever. That I would always, always come back. That no matter what, I would find him.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“All that time, she remembered me, she was just waiting for me to remember her.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“We stood there, four generations of Farrow women, cursed to live between worlds. But in that moment, in the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, we existed only in one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“It loomed over me, an infinite number of forgotten moments living beneath its roof. But forgotten wasn't the right word, was it? How could I forget something if I hadn't lived it yet?”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I'd been wrong about the June who came through that door five years ago. I'd hated her for the choice she made because I thought it was cruel. I thought it was careless. But this aching love that was breaking ground inside of me didn't feel selfish. It felt brave.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“The curse on the Farrows had broken the natural laws of the world, and with it had come so much suffering. But in this, there'd been the most unexpected of gifts.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“She was a prism that colored me and my world with a story. We were the limbs of a broken tree with poisoned roots.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I had loved Mason for who he was, but also because he was the only one who'd ever chosen me. But this—this was a home I'd built with my own two hands. I'd made this. It was mine. There was a life on the other side of the door. A history. A strange disappearance. But in this life, I had something that I'd never had before.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I wouldn’t change any of it. If I could walk through a door and undo all of this, I wouldn’t. Do you understand?”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“My eyes focused on the chart that hung on the wall behind him. It was a diagram of the human heart, with detailed renderings of the muscle and tissue, and I immediately thought how fortunate I would be to have something as simple as a heart problem. There were surgeries for that. Clinically proven medications to prescribe. Transplants, even. Labels identified the organ's components in words like chamber, ventricle, atrium, valve. It all looked so simple. Like the parts of a machine. But the human brain was like the uncharted depth of the oceans. Science was still wading around in the shallows.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I had only one ambition in my simply built life, and that was to be sure the Farrow curse would end with me. It was as good a place as any to end a story. I wasn't the first Farrow, but I would be the last.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I didn't care that this crossed the line of keeping my distance or confusing boundaries. In that moment, I needed there to be no space between the three of us. I needed to feel us together, with no beginning and no end.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“My fingers tapped the steering wheel as the road grew narrower, my mind sifting through each thought. I knew what I was doing, throwing myself down one rabbit hole to keep from falling down the other. I was distracting myself from what was happening. And deep down, I knew that it didn’t matter how deep the hole went. Eventually, I was going to hit the bottom.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“He was a field of buried land mines.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“He was a crack in a dam, a man who’d gone hungry.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“she’d been a fixture, a rare constant in my life.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I'd found myself in one of those vulnerable moments when the truth came for me.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“He’s your brother, June.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“And I didn’t think there was any way to ever come back from that explosion of light that had birthed a universe inside of me when she said that word. Mama.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I suspected that the ache of missing her would mostly come from those little things. The holes that were left behind, empty places I’d stumble upon now that she was gone.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“He’s my father, a monster that lives in the church beside the river,”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“I’d been wrong about the June who came through that door five years ago. I’d hated her for the choice she made because I thought it was cruel. I thought it careless. But this aching love that was breaking ground inside of me didn’t feel selfish. It felt brave.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“June Rutherford died on October 2, the exact same day of the year that Clarence Taylor discovered me in that alley.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“The red door.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“It was like hearing a sound and being unable to tell which direction it was coming from.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“The next time you see the door, open it.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow