“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what…”

“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on…”

“Show me how ruin makes a home out of hip bones. O mother, O minutehand, teach me how to…”

“Language, like people, can be perpetually in flux. That words are, in a sense, bodies…”