" It does not suffice for me simply to tell stories of extraordinary experience.

Ever since the first tales I heard from my mother, my passion has always been the study of cause and effect: what happens afterwards, next. How we change in response to sudden illness, oddly timed encounters, unsought gifts. Why so often we don’t, refusing to let ourselves be shaken, or moved. Or we react, but in ways that serve neither us, nor others. "

― Tanya Shadrick , The Cure for Sleep