“He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children. Is that the first sign of love? You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
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,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share
“She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within.… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
