Sean Thielen-Esparza

Lóri put on perfume and this was one of her imitations of the world, she who was trying so hard to learn life

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring.