“She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.”
“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
“She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew,a woman always knows”