Sabrina > Sabrina's Quotes

“Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset
The rim of the sky takes on a tinge
Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber
When you peel it carefully.”
― Robert Hass, Time and Materials

“In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.”
― Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Camera

“A nothing day full of
wild beauty
....
Little fish stream
by, a river in water. ”
― James Schuyler, Selected Poems

“When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain. ”
― Rae Armantrout, The Pretext

“In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. ”
― John Ashbery

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.”
― Leonard Michaels

“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.

A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“A male editor I once worked with tried to dissuade me from the personal: "Who care about what happened to you?" The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

It does.”
― Mona Eltahawy

“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory