" Have you ever stepped out of your life for days at a time to listen to one single story? Maybe read a book without stopping? When you come back out of it, when you return to life from the midst of that story, you are a transformed being. You will never be quite the same again, no matter how hard you try to return to your old self. Stories will do that if we let them. They'll work their way inside, to the deepest parts and they'll live there, and they'll change us. "

― Shawn Smucker , The Edge of Over There