I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass.
I never learn anything from listening to myself.
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
For about 48 weeks of the year an asparagus plant is unrecognizable to anyone except an asparagus grower. Plenty of summer visitors to our garden have stood in the middle of the bed and asked, 'What i...
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Chivalry wasn’t dead, it’s just that men didn’t own all the horses anymore, and women of Helene’s ilk didn’t need that kind of rescue.
But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.
Bears and wolves are our fairy-tale archenemies, and in these tales we teach our children only, and always, to kill them, rather than to tiptoe past and let them sleep. Maybe that's why I'm comforted...
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
Whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democra...
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't...
Thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.
She's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.
Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.
They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation.