Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

My son is a blessing in every way.

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

They [my sons] all went to different schools and all did different things. They're about as different for five kids as you'll ever see. They don't do anything the same.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!