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“Someday, you’ll feel thankful to your mother. But I want you to act thankful now.” These are the last words he ever says to her. (Or are they the last words that she can remember? Did he say something more? There is no one to ask.)
“How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves—all of our selves—wherever we go.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“For my mother’s fifty-eighth birthday I had all her emails from India printed into a book, along with the beautiful photographs she had taken on her journey.”
― Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
― Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
“But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.”
― A Spool of Blue Thread
― A Spool of Blue Thread
“When you lose someone you love, you start to look for new ways to understand the world.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
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