Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.
Al día de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con qué actitud desempeño mi papel, eso depende únicamente de mi.
I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset.Let's cook, Frannie said energetically....
Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
Do you think yourself a string too short to save? Do you think that you are lank and straight, a linear bit with no connection fore or aft? Fear not your insignificance. Nature has a drawer for you. Y...
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
Beware the treachery of words, Mrs Sparrow. They mean one thing to one person and the opposite to another.
She said to me.
Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.
What do you think of God, I asked, for testing the loyalty of Job? I think it is wrong for the strong to test the weak, though it is natural for the weak to test the strong.
Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
I rather regretted that I did not myself have a sister who was a friend and with whom I could compare myself, the better to understand both my singularity and our commonality.
You are my Easter.
What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.
Perhaps Vulnerability was a land that, for some people, could never be entirely traversed.
Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always...
It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold he...
I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweet...
There is a great debate in Kentucky, south of us, near Tennessee, between those who believe in free will and those who hold with predestination. I have always believed I was free.