Barbara McEwen

“A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.”
― James Hannaham, Delicious Foods

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan”
― Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

“Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.”
― James Hannaham, Delicious Foods