"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."

"Imagine finding out you got rejected from community college, then finding out that your alcoholic father go…"

"You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back …"

"The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker a…"

"The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studie…"

"It was just such uniqueness of points of view that startled Ruth. Not only were they new to her, and contra…"

"Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast."