6 quotes found
“With eye and hand and breath and will.”
“It's a queer business, making oneself blind.”
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.”
“Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.”
“Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good...”