Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.