[Filtered away from graduated inmates and from Tirion, Martha, and Sarah. Audio.]

We are defined by we do. Identity therefore is not an idea or a definition, but a series of acts taken. The future tends to come to abrupt and violent ends, so your life is measured by your past. What you have done is what you are.

[He smiles.]What you have done ( Read more... )

People always give terrible reasons for hating floods. "They were embarrassing." "I was a girl." "I wish people hadn't known that about me." Life happens. The only things floods can do that it isn't possible to have happened to you anyway is change you. Overnight, you become a completely different person. You want different things. Maybe you have a ( Read more... )