[b]Barbara Kingsolver
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It’s everyone’s, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.[/b]
Assuming of course you are not misundstanding this.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
As nearly as anyone can tell in all likelihood.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Don’t expect mine to ever reach it.
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
Not unlike the least important thing for some.
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Right, and who gets to decide what that is?
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Fatherhood? Forget about it.