Quotation

Nan Lily straightened her sweater and clasped her hands on her lap. "What does it matter if you know who she is?" "It just feels like people should know who she was." "But what does it matter if YOU know?" "Maybe I'll understand things better." "Like what?" Nan Lily asked. "I don't know. Life." "Because you think her story is your story." I stared at Nan Lily. "It is good that you try to know her," she said. "Because then you might know some of her truths." I nodded. "But you cannot know her. Not fully," she said. "And it is dangerous to ever think you can. Because then you will mistake your own truths for hers."