Memory is the seamstress of our lives.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Memory as Seamstress
M
Love and Fear
L
We invent what we love, and what we fear.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Unhealed Time
U
Time does not heal; it makes a half-stitched scar that can be broken and again you feel grief as total as in its first hour.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Unrecognized Patterns
U
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Destined Paths
D
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Power of Silence
P
Silence is the music of the unsaid.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Remembering to Forget
R
To want to forget something is to think of it.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Innate Youth
I
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Soul’s Growth
S
The soul is not a smithy, but a bloom that must be cultivated.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies
Object of Desire
O
Desire creates its own object.
Cynthia Ozick – Foreign Bodies