"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
"After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother."
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Source: The grandmother of invention. Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.
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