“Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.” WayPersonsHonestBeing HonestPermissionAccusingOverbearing Book:Mission to America: A Novel Source: Mission to America: A Novel
“I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.” YearsPersonsBookDifferentStoriesIndividualBloodPerspectiveHusbandFocusedMemoirVersionsDisagreeConventionalFooledConcentratingSelectiveDifferent Perspective Author:Walter Kirn
“'ve always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but afraid to emulate. Impostor narratives are exactly that. When they end in disaster, as Clark's did, or as Gatsby's did, we can congratulate ourselves for our own wisdom. We can also experience, safely, at no cost, the terrible thrill of radical self-invention, of trading who we are for who we might be.” PersonsEndsSelfStoriesMightJourneyTerribleCostDisasterInventionDefinedRadicalNarrativeWho We AreThrillTradingTemptedEmulateAlluring Author:Walter Kirn
“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.” WorldPersonsSometimesEnoughLostThis WorldBubblesHeartbeatSuffocating Book:She Needed Me Source: She Needed Me
