I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

The Things They Carried (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) - ISBN: 9780547420295