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It never occurred to me that my mother could hold against me my unfitness to transfer myself into the child she had relished and lost.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
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