Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.