“We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.” ThinkingKnowsI CanPassionLossSecretMistakeMinesHatredWeightGuiltTiesSpiteKeepers Book:Oystercatchers Source: Oystercatchers
“Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingFirstsMayChildrenWholeStoriesCertainFallFightingNextTeachHeroFalling In LoveTalesGenerousThickListenersWiserNext DayJarsOlives Book:Shadow Spinner Source: Shadow Spinner
“But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.” KnowsPersonsSoulBest ThingsSat Author:Susan Fletcher
