Memoi Quotes

“Like prison, I'm never getting out of trouble. The only thing I can do is make my trouble your joy - because here's the thing about reading my memoir: it will make you feel good about yourself. You feel morally superior even as you identify with me. You slip into the supple skin of a cannibal for nearly three hundred pages, and enjoy it; then you can slough it off, go about your happy moral business, and feel like you are a better person.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“The cave doesn’t change for you, but it allows you to change for it.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return