Ruth’s Reviews > Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains > Status Update

“I wonder what it will take for us to return to ourselves? To rush back to shore, our hands full of droplets of water, the bits of essence we’d flicked from our fingertips? I wonder if we will make ourselves whole again—if we will step back into not our personhood or our staunch individuality, but our kinship and connection, our very human nature.”

“Begging is what you do when you sense something scary is true. Praying is what you do when you’re driving through a river valley, trying to find a way to turn all that fear into some sort of surrender.”