“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.”
“Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.”
“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me...”
“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”