to give Quotes

“They give animals the gift of human speech. ”

“Knowing her mother likes red, she cannot give her a cardinal, a red roof or red underwear, but she can give her mother an apple.”

“The birdlike gestures are worn away to a mere picking and plucking her way between the tire rims and the sunflowers, between Coke bottles and milkweed, among all the waste and beauty of the world—which is what she herself was. All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us.”

“Olly gave me a..... It’s round and bouncy. I like catching it!”