A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

Everything truly important is washable.

As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.