“ You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word. ”
Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.
~ Anthony Marra
No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.