Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
Hope is a dream deferred.
I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.
High school was great when it ended.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.