So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.