I want to tell you I'm strong and resolute, but in truth, I feel afraid and alone and uncertain. I feel as if he has died, and I suppose in some way it's true. I'm left with nothing but this strange b...
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presi...
I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hu...
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for...
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the...
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably somethin...
I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life shall find it. Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.
Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlive...
As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss a...
My awakening had shown me new truths about my religion, my life, and the lives of women. I had survived a landslide of awareness. But I didn't know if I could act on them. When you can't go forward an...
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
The night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin
You've been halfway living your life for too long. May was saying that when it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going a...
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.
You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary, and so the spirit of Mary took it over. Really, her spirit...
We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.