Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understand each word the caterpillar said,Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed.”
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Smile the carnation and the pink.”
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“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
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Source: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
