“War is a germ that can rarely be contained.”
― A Map of Days
― A Map of Days
“remember that motherhood is mostly bearing shame to dress my children, to feed them, and to spare them the things I wasn’t spared.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“God is a thing I think I see in glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things.”
― The Love That Split the World
― The Love That Split the World
“I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There’s a place in you that is inviolate. You’ll find your way there, when you need to. And you’ll know then what I speak of.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
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