“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being...”
“I moved my feet in a vague shuffle, and remembered somewhere that when you walked, you moved them alternately. This improved our progress considerably.”
“Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that "all you can eat" is not a personal challenge.”
“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
“Oh Cecelia, you would have loved my grandmother, Miz Goodpepper said, dunking a cookie into her wine. She was so alive and full of original ideas, especially for that era. While other women were busy being proper, she was busy cultivating her spirit.”
“I used to think that being consumed by the questions of my identity and origins made me an inferior person, even as a child.”