“Emotion is the glue that causes history to stick.”

“History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.”

“I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”

“If you're going through rough times, just stick around, cause everything has to end eventually.”

“Trust is the glue that holds everything together.”

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

“It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.”

“It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.”

“How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue… and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?”

“Race and crime can be discussed as long as the topic is framed in ‘root-causes’ terms: stick to the Three Ps—patriarchy, poverty, and powerlessness.”