Bridget

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch