“Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a st...”

“I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fea...”

“The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and o...”

“Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a bet...”

“I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.”

“I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go...”