22 Quotes by Alyson Richman

"I know only one thing. One doesn’t abandon family. One doesn’t leave them, even in the name of love."

"She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul."

"In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt."

"There was a lightness to the material that she loved but that also made her feel vulnerable, and she wondered which was more dangerous – the transparency of a fabric or of the soul?"

"In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to it’s own current."

"The mind, the heart, the womb. Those three are all threaded in a sacred dance. A woman’s pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When a mother’s diet in insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless."

"Like poetry that is recited but never written down, more powerful because it is held solely in the mind."

"A woman who loves books has a dreamer’s soul, with each story she has read woven into her own."

"You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:."

"I often wonder if it’s the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you."