The Signature of All Things

by Elizabeth Gilbert

parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.

“Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy’s distraction.”

“One must bear what cannot be escaped,” she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. “You will not die of your grief—no more than the rest of us ever have.”

Well, we all fall prey to nonsense at times, child, and sometimes we are fool enough to even love it.”