Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.