Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

by Dani Shapiro

Speak, Memory, ponders the question of how to examine a deluded mind when one’s only resource is a deluded mind.

Bessel van der Kolk: “The nature of trauma is that you have no recollection of it as a story.”

Once again I became that child standing outside the warmly lit houses of my neighbors, alone in the fading dusk, longing to be invited inside.

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land.”

“Take your seat beneath the tree of enlightenment, halfway between heaven and earth.”