Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.