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Kathryn Harrison is an American author known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often focus on personal identity, family relationships, and moral dilemmas.

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“Tears water our eyes. "Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.”

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Book:Weeds in Nana's Garden: A heartfelt story of love that helps explain Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.

Source: Weeds in Nana's Garden: A heartfelt story of love that helps explain Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.

“For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.”

Thinking Writing Identity Demon Constructs Inseparable Undertakings Cerebral

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“There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.”

People Giving Giving Up Missions

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“I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.”

Rational Unconscious Intersections

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“Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.”

People Sometimes Tears Dimensions Veils

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“Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.”

Writing Sane

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“I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.”

World Writing I Can Work Out

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“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.”

Way Want Looks Different Ends Asks Cutting Happened Perspective Reader Down And Clean Slips Chapters Bleeding Different Perspective Sly Stilettos

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“As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.”

People Young Values My Own Please Young Women Others Happiness

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“Scars are stories, history written on the body”

Stories Body Written Scar

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“We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.”

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Book:The Kiss: A Memoir

Source: The Kiss: A Memoir

“My days are as long as despair can make them.”

Long Despair

Book:The Kiss: A Memoir

Source: The Kiss: A Memoir

“The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.”

Force Water Impossible Air Purity Starving Rapture Dizzy Force Of Will

Book:The Kiss: A Memoir

Source: The Kiss: A Memoir

“Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.”

Want Who You Are

Author:Kathryn Harrison

About the Author

Born: March 20, 1961
Known for: Author
Quotes: 14

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The Kiss: A MemoirRelated source material

Weeds in Nana's Garden: A heartfelt story of love that helps explain Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.Related source material

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