父母很少放开孩子，所以孩子放开了他们。他们继续前进。他们搬走了。用来定义他们的时刻 - 母亲的认可，父亲的点头 - 被自己成就的时刻所涵盖。直到很久以后，随着皮肤下垂和心脏的衰弱，孩子们才理解。他们的故事以及他们所有的成就都坐在他们母亲和父亲的故事上，石头在石头上，生活在他们的生活之下。
(Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mother and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.)