jewelflyt:
It's a very fragile world, she told us, so walk carefully everywhere you go & we promised to remember for as long as we could.
jewelflyt:
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
jewelflyt:
Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults? & their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.
jewelflyt:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all
jewelflyt:
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
jewelflyt:
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
jewelflyt:
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
jewelflyt:
There was a boy with skin as dark as the earth & a girl with eyes as blue as the deep & they loved each other so well that people could not tell them apart, for in their hearts, there was no difference between them.
