What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our belief systems - and so I find them fascinating. Also, I love the idea that families have narratives that are essentially the family story that is passed along generation to generation - and the rifts start when people question the story.
A.M. HomesMy mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
A.M. HomesI liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
A.M. HomesI am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
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