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

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

- 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

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

You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

- 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…

- 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…

- Alyson Richman

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

- 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…

- Alyson Richman