Quotes from Alyson Richman

Your eyes are wide open. I feel as though I could step inside them and make myself at home.

There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.

Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.

You are too young to understand, solange, but there are many different types of love in this world. There are lovers of the flesh, lovers of the mind, and lovers sustained by family.:

I told my daughter, the first time she fell in love, not to hold it too close. Think of yourself in a warm, summer pool, I told her, concentric circles rippling all around you. Golden beams of sunlight flooding your hair, striking your face. Inhale it. Breathe it. It will not leave you. If you place sunlight in your palms, it will turn to shadow. If you put fireflies in a jar, they will die. But if you love with wings on, you will always feel the exhilaration of being suspended in flight.

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 it's own current.

I know only one thing. One doesn't abandon family. One doesn't leave them, even in the name of love.

I often wonder if it's the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you.

Cada persona tiene una imagen o una memoria que guarda en secreto. Una que tiene que desenvolver, como un trozo de caramelo, por las noches. Si uno pasa por allí, cae en el valle de la ensoñación.

Nos sonreímos el uno al otro, como si ambos supiéramos algo que ninguno de los dos tenía el valor de decir.

Without the fingerprint of the heart, it would only be sound... not music.

Are you the man that says nothing or the man that acts upon his beliefs?

But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy.

A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

Love stories always seem to be a spark.