Elizabeth Stone > Quotes

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone

“When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew to care about in a more complicated way than I had ever cared about the boy.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student

“The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. Even if we loathe our families, in order to know ourselves, we seem to need to know about them, just as prologue. Not to know is to live with some of the disorientation and anxiety of the amnesiac.”
― Elizabeth Stone, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us

“I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student