“Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...”
“In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.”
“It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.”
“My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot.”
“Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.”