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“Would he as well neglect the perishing person, wouldn’t he help to get up, would he turn away? I think I know the answer is obvious. He was flying so high above each of us that after falling down h...”
“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.”
“If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.”
“[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in orde...”
“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
“I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.”
“Ah, you big Nancy, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Seen it many times before. They come and go, boy, never change. It’s the same type from the very beginning. Nothing’s changed except the clothes ...”
“But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.”
“A hard man is nice to find”
“Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.”
“Alannah?” He held her limp body waiting for a response. “Don’t do this.” He put his hand over the other cut whispering his words and healing it as well. “Alannah?” His voice begged, as he held her ...”
“This woman is a virus and she’s eating me alive.”
“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just t...”
“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”
“……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It...”
“They met me in the day of success: and I havelearned by the perfectest report, they have more inthem than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desireto question them further, they made themselves air...”
“Whenever I'm around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.”
“But it feels good just getting it out—letting someone else know how much hatred I’m harboring.”
“To be able to say "I love you", one has to be able to say "I”
“Not I; I must be found;My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,Shall manifest me rightly.”
