Impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.
It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
How can you ask us to go back to our parlors? I said, rising to my feet. To turn our backs on ourselves and on our own sex? We don’t wish the movement to split, of course we don’t—it saddens me to thi...
He will use the word love, and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything.
The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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...
Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn’t have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log...
This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I loved that girl, that woman.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say,...
My mauma was shrewd. She didn’t get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
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...
I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.
The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy...
Afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.
It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.
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.
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
Showing 41 to 60 of 352 results