I am so taken with these words from an essay by Anthony Doerr that appeared recently in Granta.
The essay is entitled ���Thing With Feathers that Perches in the Soul��� and the words are these:

���What does not last, if they are not retold, are the stories. Stories need to be resurrected, revivified, reimagined; otherwise they get bundled with us into our graves, a hundred thousand of them going into the ground every hour.
Or maybe they float a while, suspended in the places we used to be, w...