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"You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them."

"The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history."

"In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; th..."

"Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person’s constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance o..."

"It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together."

"Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it."

"Stories weren't just make believe, all Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. I saw a circle: first life, then death. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Blue sky and storms and quilts of cold clouds occupy the same s..."

"With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these..."

"On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through..."

"I miss the days of burning your kind at the stake. For generations we have settled for financial ruin and ostracization of your whorish ancestors - but know this, I will personally gut you and put you..."