Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.”

Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

Four questions, a little scavenger hunt.

we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.

“Now,” he says, “what’s a seed?” “A seed is a little sleeping plant, a container to protect the little sleeping plant, and a meal for the little sleeping plant when it wakes up.”