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“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and ...”
“Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.”
“When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.”
“This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.”
“She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.”
“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”
“Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.”
“That’s the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can’t live that way. The world’s too lonely a plac...”
