Danielle Ganek

“You could BE somebody," he said, focusing a tight shot on her face. "Honey," she said, mugging for the camera like an old time movie queen, "I already am somebody.”

“You are the sole author of the story of your life, my dear. Make it a good one.”

“How well can we really know another person? Peolpe can be in your lives for years - they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.”

“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.”

“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”

“We never know how big a role we play in someone else's drama.”

“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.”

“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

“Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.”