"The afternoon light fell through the curtain like a letter being unfolded, one crease at a time."
"Every envelope is a small room. You open the door and someone is already there, waiting."
"To tend a garden is to practice the most patient form of letter-writing -- addressing the future in the language of soil."
"The cup held the warmth long after the tea was gone, the way a room holds the shape of a conversation."
"Every departure is a small folding -- the world creased neatly along the line of the horizon."
"LLITTL is not a place. It is the habit of paying attention -- to the crack in the teacup, to the wren on the wire, to the silence between two people who have said everything and are happy to say nothing at all."