“How is life a shaped? By parentage, siblings, calss and religion, by schooling, vocational choices, by friends, partnerships, children, by place and time, by illness and accident, and sometimes, but most rarely, by surprising choice.” Life And Living Book:Girl Runner Source: Girl Runner
“Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.” Life LessonsChoices Book:Girl Runner Source: Girl Runner
“People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.” LoveDissapointment Book:Girl Runner Source: Girl Runner
“We are the sum of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.” ActionEmotionsInaction Book:Girl Runner Source: Girl Runner