Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
Mary Hunter AustinWhen a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
Mary Hunter AustinTo underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
Mary Hunter AustinAll mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.
Mary Hunter Austin