I Love a Broad Margin to My Life Quotes

“…I have changed/I am a dandelion puffball blur. My hair,/scribbles of white lines. My face. Lines/crisscross and zigzag my face./My eyes. I am looking into eyes/whose color has turned lighter, hazy brown./Wind and time are blowing me out." –Maxine Hong Kingston”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

“Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

“Upon Good Earth, lay the body down,
open the mouth wide, let song rush through.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

“I regret always writing, writing. I gave
my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows,
so i could have 20 minutes to write.
I sat at my mother's deathbed, writing.
I did swab her mouth with water, and feel
her pliant tongue enjoy water, then harden
and die. Before I had language,
before I had stories, I wanted to write.
That desire is going away.
I've said what I have to say.
I'll stop and look at things I called
distractions. Become a reader of the world,
no more writer of it.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life