I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.
Julia Glass
culture people names children child vengeance ancestors
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
fate
Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?
change
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
time
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.
rain
I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
expectations
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