Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
I think everybody has a secret life.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.