“Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
While this quote is Lilly talking about finding out the truth about her mother, I think the author had a double meaning in mind behind this sentence. I think it also relates to the way Lilly started off (or at least, when we first meet her in the book) rather unaware of the depths of the effects of racism. Sure, she knows about racism, because it was really prevalent in that time. However, until she was walking into town with Rosaleen, racism was not extremely prevalent in her own personal life. After that, several different events happen due to racism, and each change Lilly in some way.
I think that the author was alluding to that in this sentence. She now knew the truth about how ugly racism was, and how it changed everything. Yet knowing the truth was almost worse than living in oblivion.
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