D.M. Ditson > Quotes

“Months ago I shared my secrets with him and recognized the tenderness in his voice like I'd only given him more to love. Like a diamond that's been cut and now all its edges gleam.”
― D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“It passes away like the end of a day, like a toddler’s first goldfish, like a leaf in the autumn, like grandparents, like fruit flies, like memories, like a flower that’s been picked, like childhood and youth, like Ozymandias, like a worm that gets eaten by a bird that gets caught by a cat that gets hit by a car, like starving children across the world, like everything.

The days weave together, a million tiny moments that I despise or savour or simply notice one at a time as I fall deeper and deeper into silence and into God, which is just another word for Love.”
― D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more.”
― D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

“What if there are no villains at all?”
― D.M. Ditson, Wide Open