Pippa GSD

“I am finding I have nowhere to put all of this. I’m sorry, but do you know what I mean? It’s like I’ve come home from the grocery store overburdened with bags, but the cupboards, the refrigerator, the pantry, the countertop are all already full. A mother and father? But I had a mother and father. Siblings? I have a sibling. It feels a betrayal to even acknowledge you exist! No vacancy. No room at the inn. We’re all full up, and yet the thing I always thought was so small now seems as enormous as a galaxy, this thing I have felt my whole life, and that is, a sense of something missing, this curiosity of why my mother let me go. I haven’t the tools for it”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“A literate society depends on three things: culture, communication, and choice. One could add that culture is also faith and morality, that communication is also social interaction and equality, and that choice is both individualism and political action.”
― Barbara Chase-Riboud, I Always Knew: A Memoir

“Perhaps if you have children, they will remember you; if you have grandchildren, they, God allowing, may also retain a few fragments of memory including you, but their children will not. They may keep some old photos in a book on a shelf, and perhaps two or three times in a lifetime may turn the page and find your face”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“He couldn’t have burned the books; he couldn’t have so casually destroyed the pages on which he had first encountered Miss Havisham and Mr Verloc and Gabriel Conroy and Edward Ashburnham and Heathcliff; where first he’d glimpsed Netherfield Park and Barchester.”
― William Trevor, Love and Summer