Dani Shapiro Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Art, Pain

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

  Dani Shapiro

  Heart, Son, Would Be

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Lonely, Husband

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