I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face." --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

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