“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.”

“Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.”

“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”

“We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

“Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale”

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”