Pam

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”
― Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

“The people who are with us by either happenstance or design during life-altering events become woven into the fabric of those events.”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“Throughout history, great philosophical minds have grappled with the nature of identity. What makes a person a person? What combination of memory, history, imagination, experience, subjectivity, genetic substance, and that ineffable thing called the soul makes us who we are? Is who we are the same as who we believe ourselves to be?”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love