13 quotes found
“Some people feed you with love.”
“The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.”
“I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.”
“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”
“He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.”
“You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; e...”
“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to cla...”
“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being dist...”
“There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.”
“And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; he'd seen it before many times but neve...”
“Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. The...”
“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by co...”
“Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.”
