“We can know and be known to each other, and then we’re not enemies anymore” (pg 1).

“Kill everyone at a party, and you are the life of the party, but that doesn’t make you good company” (pg 24).

“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive” (pg. 59).

“Ellie had a lot of sadness in her life. Sadness of the kind that makes perfectly normal people into poets” (pg 121).

“Does writing poetry make you brave? It is a good question to ask. I think making anything is a brave thing to do. Not like fighting brave, obviously. But a kind that looks at a horrible situation and doesn’t crumble.
Making anything assumes there’s a world worth making it for. That you’ll have someplace, like a clown’s pants, to hide it when people come to take it away.
I guess I’m saying making something is a hopeful thing to do” (pg 122).

“Karen was kind in a way that people can be, when kindness doesn’t cost them anything” (pg 306).

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