“A childhood never fully dies. Stories of life come up through cracks in the accounts, the spaces between death sentences, the pauses in obituaries, finding light and air to grow.” LifeStoriesDeathChildhood Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake
“A man dies at twenty and it is a great shame. He dies at thirty or forty and he has been taken from us too soon. But if one reaches the age of eighty-three, all the shock eventually begins to flow the other way, even in a murder case. The chief question becomes: How on earth did he survive so long?” AgeDeath Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake