A Stone Boat Quotes

“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.”
― Andrew Solomon, A Stone Boat

“I told my mother that she was not going anywhere and that I would remember her for a good long time because she was going to go on reminding me of herself.”
― Andrew Solomon, A Stone Boat