Widdershins

"I want to learn to love like this, the way we love our dogs, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way our dogs love us." ~ Ann Patchett

"All talk of paradise only starts when something has been lost." ~ Kevin Rushby

"When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks made them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine." ~ Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

"The opposite of essential speech is small talk, which does not directly express a man or woman's deepest needs, but which is really a way of avoiding them." ~ Nancy Willard

"There are two main scenarios. For the heroines of plays and romances, the motives for male disguise are many and varied, as are the consequences. But one thing is sure: girls in breeches turn women's heads. This is often known as the female bridegroom motif, because many authors ratchet up the tension by using an imminent wedding as a ticking time bomb for the cross-dresser, who may experience just as much erotic confusion as she causes in others." ~ Emma Donoghue, "Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature"