Pg 44 Quotes

“As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“...the process of transformation starts with decay..."
"And then you have something beautiful?" asks Alma.
"But first you have something ugly, my love. Foul and fair always live together," replies Ma.
"And then you have a butterfly who...for all its beauty, will only live a few days," says Cookie Auntie.
"Beauty is ephemeral," agrees Ma...
"Ephemeral": short-lived, brief. Alma considers it. "But beauty will exist for the person who sees it. And after they have seen it, the person will not forget having seen it."
..."Beauty can live on. In memory, or a story, in language and words, in music," agrees Ma.”
― Melody Razak, Moth