The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.