Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch

Thank you for being such a beautiful friend. I am in awe of you.

All people have their different capabilities & magically some of them are limitless & incredible.

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be

The sentence im reading is terrific.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

Being sexy is kind of funny to me.