If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are