BoneArena
Bio
"You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear."
Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love"... it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain."
Tim O'Brien, Notes from The Things They Carried"Whether we want to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone."
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous