"It's hard to explain. It probably sounds super silly, but I do have a lot of really weird dreams."

“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”

“There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.”

“I breastfeed and I’ll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,”

“This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.115, Library of America

“I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.112, Penguin

“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”

“I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.”

Source : "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

“Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”