Karen deVries

“although they knew this was a mere formality. Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
― Tennessee Williams

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”
― Dorothy Gallagher