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“I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be.”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the truth? How does one learn to think it?”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“I wanted to show her the small acts that grounded me each day: make a pot of coffee, do the dishes, sweep the kitchen floor, water the plants. Moments that are for no one, toward nothing, except the maintenance of a day. Moments not worth being written about, maybe, but that make me feel the most connected to being alive.”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“Caterpillars don’t turn directly into butterflies,” they said. “They make a cocoon so that they can turn into goo, and then re-form.”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“You have the right to ask questions, to live with and in doubt, to try things on for size. Your life is your experiment. You can try to catch mist. When you learn that you can't catch it, you can go outside and feel it on your skin.”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

