The past was a bridge that ...

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.
 Bret Anthony Johnston

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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
 Bret Anthony Johnston