You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails un...
There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.
There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
They say you can bear anything if you can tell a story about it.
This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by askin...
This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
The time to assert one’s right is when it’s denied!
Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman...
Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.’ She held out her hand to me. ‘Give me your hand.’ I lifted...
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?
We are surrounded on all sides by God but often we are no more conscious of him than we are of air pressing against us. We don't turn our attention to Him. (Evelyn Underhill)
You do your rebellions any way you can.
We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. W...
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