A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.