There is nothing perfect, [...] there is only life.
So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.
I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time w...
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even, and the impassive way I'd treated them
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
Women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
[Let's] put feet to our prayers.
You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.
Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.
The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life. My
Lily Owens: If your favorite color is blue, why did you paint the house pink? August Boatwright: [chuckles] That was May's doing. When we went to the paint shop, she latched on to a color called, Cari...
It has come as a great revelation to me, I wrote her, that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of...
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do b...
If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.
Ich hatte schon oft gehoert wie Augusta gesagt hatte: Wenn du etwas vom jemanden brauchst dann bau dem anderen eine Bruecke auf der ihr euch begegnen koennt.