don’t have the kind of nails that grow; only women with the same kind of nails will understand. They get to the end of my finger and consider their work done, flaking and breaking.
“Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.”
― The Sea Glass Sisters
― The Sea Glass Sisters
“Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.”
― Coming Home
― Coming Home
“Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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