Elizabeth

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings