Marcia

“The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.”
― Gloria Naylor, Mama Day

“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds

“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”
― Gloria Naylor, Mama Day

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”
― Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty