"Remember when you tried to teach me the violin and I poked you in the eye and we laughed till we cried? I wish I had stuck with it so I could help make music.
All in Issue 3: "Story"
"Remember when you tried to teach me the violin and I poked you in the eye and we laughed till we cried? I wish I had stuck with it so I could help make music.
"I didn’t respond to my birth mother’s letter because I didn’t know how. The letter became a fuzzy part of my history, a fun fact that I’d blurt out when I was drunk and my guard was down."
"'Then we’ll fix it. There’s an American in my ancestry, back when that meant something. I have a legacy to live up to of trying to fix impossible problems.'"
"Maybe you hit it when you’re 15 or 25 or 50, but eventually, you start to think about your place, your role, your legacy."
“'People don’t know what it’s like for me. People don’t know what it’s like coming from a reservation to school out here. No one understands.' I listened to Dakota and told him that I’d always be there for him."
"A man in my city/a long time before/it was mine/carved a home under/the sidewalk, burrowed into/the earth like/an animal."
"We knew even as kids that a good story starts with good characters. But something happens in between the front and back covers that captures us. It's what makes a story a story."
"I think I am obsessed with narratives. I am obsessed with what narratives say about their creators, about what the gaps reveal. Structure matters. Delivery matters. Aesthetics matter."