“You’d wait in the orchard for hours
to watch a deer
break from the shadows.
You said it was like lifting a cello
out of its black case.”
―
to watch a deer
break from the shadows.
You said it was like lifting a cello
out of its black case.”
―
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.”
― The Dream Thieves
― The Dream Thieves
“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
― The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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