Elizabeth

“My intuition—it is nothing more than that—is that music, common, shared, everyday music, low or high or somewhere in between, is able, at its best, to describe how we feel and to allow us to feel something more.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“This is the life you have written, the novel tells us. What happens next?”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“Writers tend to come out of families in which it is understood that language is powerful”
― George Saunders

“To forget oneself, even for an instant, in order to identify with a stranger and fully recognize him, defies necessity. And this moment of defiance, however small and discreet...liberates a power that cannot be measured at any scale in the natural world. This defiance is not a means, and it has no end.”
― John Berger