“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“Education is teaching children to find pleasure in the right things.”
― Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
― Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
“She knows that stories have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun. —Le Corbusier”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“She’d tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
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