Dee

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life—without flinching”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“what good was what I was doing if I couldn’t fix what I hadn’t done?”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Truth About Grace

“Patriotism,” said Lymond again. “It’s an opulent word, a mighty key to a royal Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. Patriotism; loyalty; a true conviction that of all the troubled and striving world, the soil of one’s fathers is noblest and best. A celestial competition for the best breed of man; a vehicle for shedding boredom and exercising surplus power or surplus talents or surplus money; an immature and bigoted intolerance which becomes the coin of barter in the markets of power—” Into”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“I’ve heard it said that when we know better, we do better. My experience is, when we learn different, we do different. Better is a matter of perspective.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Truth About Grace