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“It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself.”

Self Friendship

Book:Rules for Visiting

Source: Rules for Visiting

“Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.”

Faith Forgiveness

Book:The Report

Source: The Report

“My grandfather...The last thing he said to my mother was "Your mother loves you"...Years later it occurred to me that when someone says what my grandfather did, what they mean, what would be far more accurate, is "She is trying to love you as best she can." This might be okay with you, or it might now be what you need at all...and now I am forty years old...I don't have a daughter and I don't know if I ever will. But if I do, we will not carry this sadness forward. I'm tired of holding it.”

Book:Rules for Visiting

Source: Rules for Visiting

“Better to take the train, where I can watch the trees rush by, though so many were in bad shape from pruning and storms, they started to make me sad, Do trees regret their lot? The ones in cities or growing along forgotten margins? Do they dream of dark nights and quiet forests?”

Book:Rules for Visiting

Source: Rules for Visiting

“Why do I like gardening? Because I worry I've inherited a certain hopelessness, a potentially fatal lack of interest, that I'm diseased with reserve. Making a garden runs counter to all that. You can't garden without thinking about the future.”

Interest Future Apathy Reserve

Book:Rules for Visiting

Source: Rules for Visiting