Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.
It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
. . . you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. . . And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.
He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.