Anita Diament Quotes

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

Biblical names are hot again.

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

There’s nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose’s childhood, but time is a mother’s enemy.