Fiona Altschuler

“Emily: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?"

Stage Manager: "No." Pause. "The saints and poets, maybe — they do some.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“...Professional historical writing has, for a great many years now, been resistant to the idea of history as a narrative. Some historians have even hoped that history could be made into a science. But this approach seems unlikely ever to succeed, if for no other reason than that it fails to take account the ways we need stories to speak to the fullness of our humanity and help us orient ourselves in the world. The impulse to write history and organize our world around stories is intrinsic to us as human beings, We are, at our core, remembering and story-making creatures, and stories are one of the chief ways we find meaning in the flow of events.”
― Wilfred M. McClay, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

“and if your name isn’t known, then it’s a very lonely feeling.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“At the door he knelt because Colan was the king, met his eyes because he was his brother, and obeyed him because he was Colan.”
― Gianna Cruz