The Moth Presents Quotes

“Somebody once told me, and I wish to God that I had got it sooner, that there is no such thing as a dying person; there are living people and there are dead people. And as long as somebody is alive- as long as they have any sentience or sense about them- you have to expect and allow them to be who they have always been. Never more important than at the end of somebody's life that they get to be who they are and who they always were.”
― The Moth, The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go

“When you listen to a person’s story told from their vulnerable heart, those walls of difference and indifference crumble just a bit, and our basic common humanity shines through.”
― The Moth, The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go