14 quotes found
“Home is everything you can walk to.”
“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
“What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”
“I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.”
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
“And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.”
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what ...”
“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”
“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”
“I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Seor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?”
“Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not wit...”
“You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that...”
“So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.”
“At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.”
