“There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west.” PeopleNamesBecomingWestVery GoodFamily LifeSeparatingDisconnecting Author:Marco Roth
“I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.” PeopleWayYearsPersonsI CanEndsBodyWantedExistenceHappenedMembersYears AgoFellowsRevengeUnhappyOur FamilyThirtyCyclesUnhappinessClimbingRejoiceUnfortunateSiblingBecause I CanThirty YearsFamily MembersTaking Revenge Author:Marco Roth
“Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.” PeopleWritingBookUsedNovelBe GoodMemoirGenreComing OutExecution Author:Marco Roth
