“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”

Poem A song for Edmund Blunden

As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192

Source: 11/22/63

Epigram on Two Monopolists as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Variant: Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
Source: For One More Day

"Carry It On", from Power in the Blood (2015)

Source: Drown

Sammy.
Children at the Gate (1962)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 379