Renee Gladman > Quotes

“This is my mind. Only I have the right to be here.”
― Renee Gladman

“Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.”
― Renee Gladman, The Activist

“So far it has been sex and leaves that keep me alive”
― Renee Gladman, Juice

“About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking.”
― Renee Gladman, Juice

“In that place, whenever you opened your eyes, the yellow sang out to you.”
― Renee Gladman, Event Factory

“R: I remember when I was younger, I didn't have many words for the things I felt. I'd write all this language around the thing but never say the thing or the thing at first remove from the thing, because that would be too close. People would find out. But because I didn't really know what I needed to say, I didn't exactly grasp what I was cloaking. So, I was never sure if I was quite cloaked.”
― Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

“There is something about where I am in my life and how the world feels to me that I need to know where I'm going when I enter a book. I don't even watch TV anymore, other than certain episodes of Columbo. My heart can't take it. Everything is too devastating. I can't even watch sports in real time.”
― Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

“I drew against a hum in my head that was like happiness.”
― Renee Gladman, Calamities

“Is this how we are? How have I not wanted this for myself all this time?”
― Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

“I walked until I was ensconced in darkness. Then I began to shout. I wanted a friend more than anything. I was beside myself.”
― Renee Gladman, Event Factory

“It is where I am, where many of us probably feel that we are: somewhere where the boundary between places has broken. The reason this is not an annihilating recognition is because the place where the boundary has broken is also a place of refracting light, of impossible angles, of beautiful breathing presences gathering, of music becoming language becoming lines becoming dance, the dance of the angles and light of spaces, and all of this changing all the time that there is too much to say about it, too much to see to want to stop seeing.”
― Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka

“If only traveling were about showing off your language skills, if only it did not also demand a certain commitment of body communication, of outright singing or dancing--I think I would be absolutely global by now.”
― Renee Gladman, Event Factory