Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing! Votes: 3
I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss. Votes: 3
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Votes: 6 Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Votes: 4 Groucho Marx
Someone ought to write a novel about me, Votes: 4 Catherynne M. Valente