All the big things hurt, the things you remember. If it doesn't hurt it's not important. - Tim Winton

Our stories. We store them where moth and rust destroy. We're precious about them, no? Not because we treasure them at all, but because it's safer to hold them close. Am I reading you right? Do we have that much in common?

I knew I'd failed a test whose rules I didn't yet understand.

His wife was a good woman, and he understood that. But he remembered what the minister at Margaret River used to say - the good are fierce.