Status Updates From The Map of Salt and Stars

" If you don't know the tale of where you come from, the words of others can overwhelm and drown out your own. So, you see, you must keep careful track of the borders of your stories, where your voice ends and another's begins."

"Don't forget, stories ease the pain of the living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's the living that hurts us."

"But I like to think that where the world took from me one family, it also gave me another."