She wore amethyst-purple woolen slacks paired with a…

“We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.”

— Sibella Giorello

“If I thought it felt good to come home to the place I loved and find that it waited for me, it was nothing…

— Sibella Giorello

“dripping with rain, the umbrellas looked like crumpled bouquets cast aside by sobbing brides.”

— Sibella Giorello

“Her drawing conveyed a forlorn and haunting suspense, as if asking the viewer to wonder whether these creatures would still be alive when the…

— Sibella Giorello

“And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.”

— Sibella Giorello

“We fought an enemy, invisible yet definite, who diligently worked to block us from our intended purpose, keeping us from the one thing that…

— Sibella Giorello

“tall evergreens whose long and lush boughs were coated with mineral dust, like elegant ladies wearing too much face powder.”

— Sibella Giorello

“A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door.”

— Sibella Giorello

“all the while one simple supernatural prescription waited: “Come to me.”

— Sibella Giorello

“Three hundred years later, the van came to a stop.”

— Sibella Giorello