6 quotes found
“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
“To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give on...”
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; ...”
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”