Linda

“Because we must see beauty in the darkness to make our way through. The good Lord gave us this beauty to sustain us, without it we have nothing... We grow accustomed to the Dark, Emily whispered, "when Light is put away.”
― Amanda Flower, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

“Hospitality was not a voluntary action that a person extended to friends and colleagues. It was a society-wide obligation that every household was duty bound to extend to strangers, foreigners, travelers, and sojourners. Because the societal weave was based on familial relationships, the societal welfare demanded that households offer temporary shelter and food to anyone who was brought by life circumstance into a household's territory at the end of a day.”
― Ralf A. Jacobson / Michael J. Chan

“Aren't we all descendants of foreigners at this table? Emily asked. Not a single one of us is an Indian, correct?”
― Amanda Flower, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

“Flowers on the wall remind me spring will come even in the deepest trench of winter. Flowers are hope, you see.”
― Amanda Flower, Because I Could Not Stop for Death