Clara Chow > Quotes

“And that’s when I knew she was not doing this on purpose; that her stories came from a place deep within her, beyond thought and formal language.”
― Clara Chow, Dream Storeys

“And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.”
― Clara Chow, Dream Storeys

“With the balcony doors completely open and folded up, his small room acquired an infinite vista. Somewhere on the horizon, water finally worked up the courage to embrace the sky.”
― Clara Chow, Dream Storeys

“Gravity and the elements got you, no matter how far you ran. No matter how far you ran, you took you with you - the infection built in, dogging your every step. With your fatalism and passivity, your bad taste in men and your proclivities. You carried in you the seeds of your own destruction.”
― Clara Chow, Dream Storeys

“We burrow into caves, building altars, making our mark. As though to say: We can improve upon nature. We matter.”
― Clara Chow, Caves

“We have been going through caves all our lives—starting with the birth canal. Born and reborn. Sometimes, the only way out is through. We best remember this in our darkest hour.”
― Clara Chow, Caves