“The local paper is called the World.”

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

“When I was a girlthe books I read were by men. ”

“I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timethe storyof Others.”

“I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I sayDo what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.”

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”

“Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.”