In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do,… - Alyson Richman
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do,…
- Alyson Richman
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of t… - Alyson Richman
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of t…
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born. - Alyson Richman
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad woul… - Alyson Richman
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad woul…
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. - Alyson Richman
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner i… - Alyson Richman
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner i…
A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutr… - Alyson Richman
A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutr…
Love stories always seem to be a spark. - Alyson Richman
Love stories always seem to be a spark.
But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was j… - Alyson Richman
But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was j…
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