Remembering The Bone House Quotes

“The capacity to dream beyond the facts of existence into their significance enables us to remember a true past, one that simultaneously reflects and illuminates experience.”
― Nancy Mairs, Remembering The Bone House

“Only after many years will I recognize that I, too, have survived a loss, and not necessarily intact. The depression and multiple sclerosis awaiting me will suggest that changes in the structural level have already occurred by the time I learn to forgive Daddy for abandoning me without even saying good-bye.”
― Nancy Mairs, Remembering The Bone House

“Thanks to World War II, I am a native Californian, an incongruity that perhaps troubles only a thirteenth generation New Englander. Growing up among relatives whose roots proudly clutch thin and rocky soil, I'membarrassed to have been born in California, as though I hadn't got properly born at all.”
― Nancy Mairs, Remembering The Bone House