“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”

“My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where none existed.”

“Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.”

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”

“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”

“I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .”

“‎"A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.”