Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
From Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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