American Ghost Quotes

“Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one’s past, from one’s youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.”
― Hannah Nordhaus, American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier

“Wolfgang was thirteen in 1932 when the Nazis won huge gains in the German parliament; his father said not to worry, it was just politics. “My”
― Hannah Nordhaus, American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier

“I am at an age now at which death lurks more obviously and takes more readily. The worst things we fear, the things that haunt us at night, are certain to happen—those we love will die, the body will decline, and then we too will die. Life flees like a shadow; it slips by like a field mouse. However we live—weak or strong,”
― Hannah Nordhaus, American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier

“The dead are past our help though it's hard sometimes to live without them. They take a piece of us with them when they leave, and we must learn to live reduced. We must live and let the dead be dead. And then we let them go. That is what it is to love them.”
― Hannah Nordhaus, American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest