Christie

“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”
― Mary McCarthy, How I Grew

“Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.
More than we experienced has gone by.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is, after all, that old process which Katherine Mansfield once described as ‘going out and looking at a tree and coming back plus the tree.”
― Padma Hejmadi, Room to Fly: A Transcultural Memoir

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton