Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
So This Is Where The Years Of Maturity Deliver Us - To This Needy, Selfish, Unwieldy Wish To Be Somebody Else's First And Primal Other.
-Carol Shields
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
So This Is Where The
Carol Shields
So This Is Where The Years Of Maturity Deliver Us - To This Needy, Selfish, Unwieldy Wish To Be Somebody Else's First And Primal Other.
Views: 57
Topic
Selfish
Maturity
Years
More From Carol Shields
It Occurs To Her That She Should Record This Flash Of Insight In Her Journal - Otherwise She Is Sure To Forget, For She Is Someone Who Is Always Learning And Forgetting And Obliged To Learn Again.
Learning
Records
Forget
Anyone's Childhood Can Be An Act Of Disablement If Rehearsed And Replayed And Squinted At In A Certain Light. . .
Light
Childhood
Certain
The Scolding Voice Is Her Own, So Abrasive And Quick, Yet So Powerless To Move Her.
Moving
Voice
Scolding
We Are Too Kind, Too Willing--too Unwilling Too--reaching Out Blindly With A Grasping Hand But Not Knowing How To Ask For What We Don't Even Know We Want.
Hands
Knowing
Want
Happiness Is The Lucky Pane Of Glass You Carry In Your Head. It Takes All Your Cunning Just To Hang On To It, And Once It's Smashed You Have To Move Into A Different Sort Of Life.
Moving
Glasses
Different
Trending Author
Pierre Loti
Howard Aiken
Mary McLeod Bethune
Joe Garagiola
Chad Smith
Alfred Molina
Category
Information