Brandy clark

“Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.
But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony

“He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.”
― Thomas Rayfiel, Parallel Play: A Novel

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle