Rebecca Solnit Quotes
The Past, Like The Future, Is Dark. There Is So Much We Don't Know, And To Write Truthfully About A Life, Your Own Or Your Mother's, Or A Celebrated Figure's, An Event, A Crisis, Another Culture Is To Engage Repeatedly With Those Patches Of Darkness, Those Nights Of History, Those Places Of Unknowing. They Tell Us That There Are Limits To Knowledge, That There Are Essential Mysteries, Starting With The Notion That We Know Just What Someone Thought Or Felt In The Absence Of Exact Information. Often
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