One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.