I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
“Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.”
“People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.”