I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.