“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”

“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”

“She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.”

“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”

“So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”

“Larry Bird is what keeps me going. He's my measuring stick. I don't think I would be as interested in the game if I weren't trying to play better than him.”

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”

“Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.”

“The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.”

“Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.”