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But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

You damn your own soul better than I ever could.

Anybody can act violently
there is nothing to it, but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

The material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

He could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

What is it about us human beings that we can't let go of lost things?

The snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

The room pulsed with feeling,

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.