I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

The Uses of Enchantment, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The King and the Corpse.

It would energize me, she said, to begin to cross things off my list. Depression was, in some ways, a crisis of energy. I had heard her say that before; we were in reruns.

I like to think, what I have learned: that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.