Jade

“When someone is telling you what to do all the time, anything you do of your own volition becomes a protest, doesn’t it?”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True

“Only when the increase of gifts moves with the gift may the accumulated wealth of our spirit continue to grow among us, so that each of us may enter, and be revived by, a vitality beyond his or her solitary powers.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“America is the smart-aleck adolescent who’s “been around” and has his own hot rod.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Funny how guilt sneaks into my lungs and tries to strangle me, just when I think I wrestled it into the past.”
― Adela Crandell Durkee, A Ship of Pearl