Ami Mckay Quotes

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

~ Ami Mckay

Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.

~ Ami Mckay

Miss B. says, It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

~ Ami Mckay

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

~ Ami Mckay

American girls never whimper.

~ Ami Mckay

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.

~ Ami Mckay