"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." 

"I'm only supposed to tell one story at a time, one story. Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginning, middle, end. I don't do that. I never do.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear. Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence." 
 

Interview (2002) with Robert Birnbaum:    http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum67.html  

"Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love" (90). 

This italicized comment, like others in Allison's personal narrative, invite readers to stop reading and reflect on the implications/significance of what has been said.  When I reach the last page (I would not call it the conclusion) of the book, I see Dorothy Allison holding her son Wolf, and I focus on her comment that the last brick fell down around her.   I believe she has written this narrative for her son in the hope that, by passing on her story, he might learn to live in a different way. 

The last words of Dorothy Allison's narrative are these:  "I can tell you anything.  All you have to believe is the truth."   Here it seems to me she is speaking not only to her son but also to all of us as readers--encouraging us to trust our own judgments about family stories and asking us to sift through various versions of what has been passed down to us in family stories, legends, disputed versions of events, etc.