Rose Gittell

“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”
― Frida Kahlo

“The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.”
― Martin Prechtel, The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

“Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
― Martin Prechtel, The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

“But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?” “It was a president, señora.” “Of what? Some place where they don’t have any oxygen?” “Of the United States.” “As I said.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna