“Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.” IfsKnowsChildrenArtEarthBlackVoiceGraceShareEqualityIceMy ChildrenSmoothElusiveUnbrokenCondescendingBlack Ice Author:Lorene Cary
“But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.” KnowsChildrenMemoriesBottomFishesCardsDoing NothingSharksDaylightDeckAces Book:Black Ice Source: Black Ice
