Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.