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This city’s noise is all caps, all the time. Written with a big, chisel-tip, permanent black marker. Impossible to ignore.
“Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we need to have the nuanced understanding of arguable the most complex and enduring social dynamic of the last several hundred years.”
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“But the story wanted an ending. Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I'm starting to think that living a dramatic, story-worthy life and happiness are, at worst, mutually exclusive, and, at best, giving each other a run for their money.”
― The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
― The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
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