I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.
Dorothy AllisonTwo or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.
Dorothy AllisonEverything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. Thatโs all you need to know in this lifeโฆjust the certainty that Godโs got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioningโs a sin, itโs pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, Iโm fine.
Dorothy Allison