I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
How can the moon be scooped from the water’s surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
the human body is a miniature version of the universe – the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we’d be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.