The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing, open to every whim of fate, the homeless wanderers lead their childlike, brave,...

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Wow, that long?

If you’d only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.’She buried her head under her pillow. ‘Stop it! you’re so cold! You’re heartless, you little...

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I...

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a...

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside...