“My life is an apology for the life of my father.”
“I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.”
“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
“You're the father of the person who is my life.”
“Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.”
“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”