But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

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

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