The Mother Who Stayed Quotes

“She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.”
― Laura Furman, The Mother Who Stayed: Stories

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection.”
― Laura Furman, The Mother Who Stayed: Stories