Quotation Blog

     "My sisters and I grasped for a narrative that would hold. We spent our days playing dolls, telling each other stories of loss, abandonment, and escape over and over again. Every game began like this: "We're orphans," I'd say, or Sara would say. Then we'd dispense with parents by way of illness, train wreck, or the civil war."

     This quote is from the book Swallow the Ocean by Laura Flynn. This quote really grabbed my attention as I was reading the story of Laura and her family dealing with an illness in their family. Laura and her sisters would play dolls everyday to escape their own reality in the harsh world they were living at home. The place they would take the dolls would always represent how they felt themselves. 

     Laura and her sisters really felt like orphans, I could tell by the fact that all of their stories would start by them , the dolls, being orphans. Their mother, who had schizophrenia, couldn't really take care of them. And because their father left, they felt like they were alone.

     I can't imagine having to live like that when I was a child. I remember when I would play with dolls. It was always about adventures and parties. A child's imagination has got to be really sick to be killing their parents in their games, even if it is just a game of dolls.