Quotes from Carolyn Forché

This life is not the same as your other life.

Lesson number four: If someone promises to do great things, ask them first for something small, like a bridge or a cow.

In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.