"six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Then the world starts in on us. That is probably my favorite line from the book. I was born blue. There was no children's hospital and so my grandparents drove me down the street, wrapped in a swaddle, to the children's hospital. That was before there was ambulance transfers, etc... I actually remember this. My grandmother wasn't super physically affectionate and I remember her holding me a little bit away from her, like a fragile package, and looking up at them in their car. It was boxy and beige. They were rushing and worried and hardly looked down at me. I looked mostly at their worried faces and their chins. I guess it is my first memory.
Then the world starts into us.
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Then the world starts in on us. That is probably my favorite line from the book. I was born blue. There was no children's hospital and so my grandparents drove me down the street, wrapped in a swaddle, to the children's hospital. That was before there was ambulance transfers, etc... I actually remember this. My grandmother wasn't super physically affectionate and I remember her holding me a little bit away from her, like a fragile package, and looking up at them in their car. It was boxy and beige. They were rushing and worried and hardly looked down at me. I looked mostly at their worried faces and their chins. I guess it is my first memory.
Then the world starts into us.
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