“that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.”
“You are more than the choices that you've made, You are more than the sum of your past mistakes, You are more than the problems you create, You've been remade.”
“He's just rather more lively than most fossils.”
“Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.”
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”
“A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”