“...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.”

“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.”

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”

“It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.”

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

“Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.”