Have you heard the songs they sing here in Kilanga? he asked. They’re very worshipful. It’s a grand way to begin a church service, singing a Congolese hymn to the rainfall on the seed yams. It’s quite...
God speaks for the silent man.
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.
But Dovey was one of those people who traveled in a medium-size pod of tardiness on which others came to rely.
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
Animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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...
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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.
The useful illusion that everything would be fine. It amazed her now to watch people walking through life with their ludicrous trust.
She's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?