“Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.”
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
“In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.”
“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”
“Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.”
“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”