“It is the stuff of fiction that a single conversation can change the course of a life; that we will return to it again and again, wishing to undo it. Even if we could, so much would remain. There are many ways of hurting, without words. It's silence that shapes us.” FamilyChildhood Book:Walking on the Ceiling Source: Walking on the Ceiling
“Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything aside.” ChildhoodMothers Book:Walking on the Ceiling Source: Walking on the Ceiling
“Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescence, which was both a physical and an emotional landscape.” MemoriesChildhood Book:White on White Source: White on White