I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?