Language buries, but does not resurrect.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.