The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.