“A statue shaped like a mute. It will leave you speechless.”
“Eyes are shaped like leaves, mouths are shaped like leaves, and goodbyes are shaped like leaves. But my love, that is shaped like a tree.”
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
“Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.”
“I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.”