Green Rose

I’d Rather Be That Desi

To gather dust is to gather up all that is around us that is sloughed off.

When served coffee, do not look to have beer in it.

The incongruities of memory: It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light.

Ancestors on the wall; let the ghosts chitchat.

Out of the North the train thundered, and we woke to see the crimson soil of Georgia stretching away bare and monotonous right and left. Here and there lay straggling, unlovely villages, and lean men loafed leisurely at the depots; then again came the stretch of pines and clay. Yet we did not nod, nor weary of the scene; for this is historic ground.

You do not eat that which rips your heart with joy.

It's hard to have a bad impression of someone you had no impression of.

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent world.