“Every time you tell your story you change it: you add adjectives, you add color, you end up forgetting all the grays in between and you only remember the highlights and the darklights. People who don’t tell their stories, who don’t have to reinvent themselves, have, I’m sure, a different memory of their lives than a person who only has to grab the big moments, good or bad. Those are the ones you tell. Those are the ones that end up defining you.”
Isabel Allende in A Sense of Place, Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Lives by Michael Shapiro
