People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn’t know for sure whether Miss Sarah’s feelings came from love or guilt. I didn’t know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. S...
The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.
Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside....
I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set...
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.
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.
If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional...What a special case I was.
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...
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...
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