Author: Terry McMillan
Cites
- Louise Glück (1)
- IN: Getting To Happy (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Nothing can be forced to live.
The earth is like a drug now, like a voice from far away,
a lover or master. In the end, you do what the voice tells you.
It says forget, you forget.
It says begin again, you begin again.
FROM: "March", (2008), Poem, US
- Søren Kierkegaard (1)
- IN: Getting To Happy (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We create ourselves by our choices.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
- Blaise Pascal (1)
- IN: I Almost Forgot About You (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is.
The fact is that the present usually hurts.
FROM: Pensees, (1670), Poem, France
- Mary Oliver (1)
- IN: I Almost Forgot About You (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
FROM: "The Uses of Sorrow (In My Sleep I Dreamed This Poem)", (2007), Poem, US