Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.