shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

“I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my gr…”

“Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is f…”

“...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken.”

“Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.”