Annie

“I'm all my me's, she said. I am complete.”
― Ali Smith, Gliff

“I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you —in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“The eye was shocking.
It was really beautiful.
You could see light in its dark, and it also had in it, both at once, two things I had never seen together in one place, gentleness, and – what?
Politeness? Indifference? Distance?
I won’t know the word for it till now, years after, right this minute, walking to wherever in the dark and permitting myself to think back to the moment I first ever saw, so close to my own eyes, any horse’s, this horse’s, eye.
The word is equanimity. (p.47)”
― Ali Smith, Gliff

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men