Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a collision of William Gaddis, M*A*S*H and The Beguiled. It is a Haiti I could never have imagined and will not soon forget. These nurses are crazy and I wish I knew them.