Caroline Donahue

“Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?”
― Zadie Smith

“Sometimes telling what happened, in whatever way you can, is a means of lightening your burden. It summons others to help you bear the weight of your own story, so that you might finally get out from under it.”
― Tracy K. Smith

“If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.”
― Steven Tyler

“The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy