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...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the...more

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God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiar...more

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With writing, we have second chances.

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She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nod...more

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I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I...more

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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.