Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.Collection: Gratitude
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.Collection: Daughter
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.Collection: Daughter
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.Collection: Crush
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.Collection: Debt
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.Collection: Egypt
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commuteCollection: Real