“The past lies just around every bend in the mountain highway. That you can spy it from the right summits. That if the fog lifts without warning, you might find yourself face-to-face with its most vivid outline in the sudden sunshine. That if you kneel by the right stretch of land under the right constellations, it might even rise from a river and acknowledge you.”
– Sanjena Sathian, “Gold Diggers”

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
– Richard Powers, “the Overstory”

“In Japan, ancient weavers believed a thousand stories could exist in a single thread. Threads were woven together and sometimes broke, but they always remained. In that way too, so did the past remain forever a part of the tapestry of life.”
– Gwendolyn Womack, “the Time Collector”