55 quotes found
“I write a lot of environmental stories.”
“I want to be two people at once. One runs away.”
“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.”
“If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.”
“Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.”
“We love surfers for the same reasons we have always admired doctors and pilots and firemen and shamans, for the same reasons we admire excellent soldiers: because despite themselves they have bowed...”
“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything d...”
“When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.”
“There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.”
“There is a pain you cant think your way out of. You cant talk it away. If there was someone to talk to. You can walk. One foot the other foot. Breathe in breathe out. Drink from the stream. Piss. E...”
“That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”
“To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.”
“Within and within. Dreaming. How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
“Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.”
“He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.”
“Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out li...”
“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.”
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you dont even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there ...”
“So I wonder what it is this need to tell.To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.”
“When her mouth found mine I disassembled. Not exploded like a bomb or anything, but came apart. A few pieces at a time. They floated away, went into a kind of orbit. A splintering galaxy. An extrav...”
“Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mou...”
