“they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.”
“Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak”
“This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.”
“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly uninteresting that immoral people can hide them and moral people cannot find them.”
“...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”
“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”