But finally my own version of God came to me in a dream, complete with a name: Corambe. He was a warm and compassionate being with a tender and unwavering regard for me. He had the humanity of Jesus and the radiant beauty of the angel Gabriel. He was graceful and poetic and ever attentive to my feelings. And though he was a male, he nonetheless dressed oftentimes in women’s clothes.
One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky. And feel the air on your face. And that you can check high and low and no, nothing in your body is hurting, not one thing. I.
One good thing about someone really liking something you have is that you appreciate it yourself all over again.
This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.
Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.
Isn’t life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn that way and this happens.
Souls are ageless and care nothing for external circumstances.
I could still taste and smell and hear and see,” she said. “I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.
I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me.
Healing hurts, but hurting heals.
Japanese tea ceremony; a way of honoring oneself by putting another’s needs first, the joy that could be found in intimate service... A conversation we’d had one night on the way home from a movie. I remember that night he’d put toothpaste on my brush before his own, then bowed, I smiled, but I’d understood too that such small gifts were one seed that blossomed in two hearts.
There’s nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.
Already I’ve seen that when you’re pulled away from your normal routine, it’s as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.
Sometimes, just when you think you’re going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There’s only so much room in a human heart. Thank God. The.
Oh, why isn’t there a Community Center for People Who Need a Little Something? If people would only tell the truth about the way they felt, it would be busy all the time. There could be folding chairs arranged in groups, people sitting there saying, “I don’t know, I just wanted to come here for a while.” I.
When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke. I alone know the latent force hidden within me. I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love. – George Sand.
What she knows now is that no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.
Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that’s what it is, one after the other.
Men were ever men.
This is the thing about strong people: you can mostly be scared of them but sometimes the way they are makes you feel safe.