18 quotes found
“my parents Oedipal fakers”
“Words carry oceans on their small backs.”
“We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.”
“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.”
“Leslie Marmon Silko whispers the story is long. No, longer. Longer than that even. Longer than anything. With Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath drink at the bar. Laugh the dark laughter in the dark ligh...”
“But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you ho...”
“Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isnt it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.”
“I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldnt let me. Some d...”
“Language is a metaphor for experience. Its as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memorybut we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
“is a way for anger to come out as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage. When I watch Andy work the heavy bag, or ...”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people dont always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. Its a shame we carry. The shame of want...”
“I didnt know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body that lives with you your whole life. I didnt know then how deeply my mothers song had swum into my sister and into me. I didnt ...”
“Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because t...”
“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The mo...”
“Where does repressed pain and rage go in a body? Does the wound of daughter turn to something else if left unattended? Does it bloom in the belly like an anti-child, like an organic mass made of em...”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wa...”
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
“I didn’t know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body that lives with you your whole life. I didn’t know then how deeply my mother’s song had swum into my sister and into me. I did...”
