It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?