1/7
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
2/7
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
3/7
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
4/7
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you.
5/7
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
6/7
God knows that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
7/7
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.