“How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?”
― Thunderhead
― Thunderhead
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“you want to keep
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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