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The dead are never really gone, they live on in the stories we tell about them.
We are all just walking each other home.
The past is a shadow that follows us into the future.
The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
The dead are not dead to us until we have forgotten them.
The past is always changing, because we are always changing our relationship to it.
The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one last puff of air.
The present is always an unstable place, the past is where we think we know where we are.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."
"The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that matters is love."
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live."
"We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were."
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I think the moment you stop learning, you stop being a writer.