Anita Diamant, The Red Tent Quotes
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.
The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.