“This is what I know about love. That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye.” LoveCaringRenewal Book:The Lost Garden Source: The Lost Garden
“With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin. Don't let me go crazy. The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.” StarsMoonStars And Moon Book:Leaving Earth Source: Leaving Earth
“In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.” WritingChoices Book:The Lost Garden Source: The Lost Garden
“The language of roses shifts under our feet. It blows in and out like the wind. It carries the fragrance of the flower and then it is gone...It is how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name.” DeathLossRoses Book:The Lost Garden Source: The Lost Garden
“We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.” LandscapeFeng ShuiCanadianGeomancy Book:Wild Dogs Source: Wild Dogs
“Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.” AnxietyLife And LivingMemoryFearsWorriesPenseesThe Simple Life Book:Wild Dogs Source: Wild Dogs
“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.” TimeReadingLonelinessReading Books Book:Coventry Source: Coventry