“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

“It’s never exactly a good time to step away -- transitions always have some rough edges -- but it’s always best to do so when the organization is strong, and before you’ve overstayed your welcome. The movement is in a good, strong place. Our communities are growing, our readership is too”

“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”

“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

“Prison is like high school with knives.”

“Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.”

“Yet, just as in any kindergarten, there are always a few naughty children who don't like to be told what to do. There are always some people who refuse to be administered amnesia. They are always trying to speak in their own words, always spreading their creative wings to fly beyond the boundaries of official memory. Following their conscience, they are willing to fly anywhere, into the past, the present or the future, in order to produce works that can pass our memories onto younger generations.”

“You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.”