I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

My underwear is my own person buisness.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.