“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?” HandsWantedLyingStarsSilenceSadnessFitDecadesBelovedLengthMelancholyPalmsPlaywrightFittingFortnight Book:The Clean House and Other Plays Source: The Clean House and Other Plays
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.” KnowsLooksPersonsEnoughHandsMotherWaterTaughtNeededFitBowlsPalms Book:Incantation Source: Incantation
“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.” ThinkingBodyHandsEyeFacesHopeWaterGriefAirLove YouAcceptanceFitPaperWeightFilledDearHeavyFleshHeatLove LifeThroatStomachCharmingPalmsVioletLungsObesityYou AgainTropicalCharming Smile Author:Ellen Bass