20 quotes found
“Misty is the color of rain on a window.”
“All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”
“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”
“Any given momentno matter how casual, how ordinaryis poised, full of gaping life.”
“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”
“To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?”
“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weatherstorms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each t...”
“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. A...”
“...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”
“And she knew for the first time that someone can wire your skin in a single evening, and that love arrives not by accumulating to a moment, like a drop of water focused on the tip of a branch - it ...”
“Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.”
“Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.”
“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”
“The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled to...”
“There was currant toast squishy with butter, caramel-marshmallow squares, strawberry boats oozing custard, chocolate exclairs that exploded with cream when the cats bit into them with their little ...”
“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”
“It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.”
“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraord...”
“Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time”
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is h...”
