Quotes from Mary Karr

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Unless you're a doubter and a worrier, a nail-biter, an apologizer, a rethinker, then memoir may not be your playpen. That's the quality I've found most consistently in those life-story writers I've met.