6 Quotes & Sayings By Fern Schumer Chapman

Fern Schumer Chapman was born in 1931. She is a United States writer of children's books, of which she has written more than sixty of. Critics have called her "a master storyteller" and "one of America's preeminent writers for young people." Her first children's book, The Moon-Beard, was published in 1967. Her writing career spans more than half a century.

1
The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off. Fern Schumer Chapman
2
Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die. Fern Schumer Chapman
3
The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map. . Fern Schumer Chapman
4
Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life. Fern Schumer Chapman
5
Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes. Fern Schumer Chapman