Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.
Mia CoutoListen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
Mia CoutoI was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.
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