“It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.” GivingSometimesStoriesAbleSleepKnowingOur LivesEventsStructureInsaneBreathingThrowingWakingArrangementsHindsightThrowing Away Author:Carol Shields
“We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.” KnowsWantKindHandsAsksKnowingWillingReachingReach OutNot KnowingUnwillingGrasping Book:Dressing Up for the Carnival Source: Dressing Up for the Carnival
