“She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.” LifeSoulDeathWealthSimpleMoneyChildhoodPuritySymbolismGraveCheapDaisy Author:J.R. Tompkins
“What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one’s own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?” ChildhoodAdoptionFatherhoodFoster ChildrenBondingAttachment ParentingProtecting Kids Book:Price of the Child Source: Price of the Child
“There was something magical in his completely uninhibited amusement, something right in his utter abandon. It was a glow within him, as if he were translucent, at play with light itself. She somehow felt a peace with the world she had been missing before. She wondered if this was a glow Savio saw in his daughters. Antoníto stopped to look for her and sent up a big wave. This is joy, she thought.” LightJoyChildhoodBlissContentmentParenthoodMagical RealismPeacefulnessGlowSelf Amusement Book:The Gardens of Marguerite Source: The Gardens of Marguerite