Sigrid

“We would have known nothing of the nature and reach of her sorrow if she had come back. But she left us and broke the family and the sorrow was released and we saw its wings and saw it fly a thousand ways into the hills, and sometimes I think sorrow is a predatory thing because birds scream at dawn with a marvelous terror, and there is, as I have said before, a deathly bitterness in the smell of ponds and ditches. When we were children and frightened of the dark, my grandmother used to say if we kept our eyes closed we would not see it. That was when I noticed the correspondence between the space within the circle of my skull and the space around me. I saw just the same figure against the lid of my eye or the wall of my room, or in the trees beyond my window. Even the illusion of perimeters fails when families are separated.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“I do however like to tell people, especially regarding writing and deadlines: "Don't be perfect, just be done.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Once I stopped worrying so much about pleasing others, once I decided to let myself off the hook, I realized I could fly.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“It is, as she said, difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping