1. “l love the way the dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.”
2. “A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.”
3. “Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.”
4. “It was so easy to agree to what did not test us.”
5. “Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves.”
6. “Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there’s nothing to be done about them .”
7. “It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There’s so much power and often very little accountability.”
8. “The word ‘camouflage’ simply means ‘ to have a family’.”
9. “Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”
10. “My goal, with whatever I’m working on, is to lose track of time.”
11. “Breathing itself was considered the first language.”
12. “My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.”
13. “Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.”
14. “Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.”
15. “A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.”
