“She leans forward.
Tightens her grip on the pencil.
Lowers her head further.
The words evade her grasp.
Words that have lost lips,
words that have lost tongue and tooth-root,
words that have lost throat and breath remain out of reach.
Like unbodied apparitions, their forms elude touch.”
― Greek Lessons
Tightens her grip on the pencil.
Lowers her head further.
The words evade her grasp.
Words that have lost lips,
words that have lost tongue and tooth-root,
words that have lost throat and breath remain out of reach.
Like unbodied apparitions, their forms elude touch.”
― Greek Lessons
“Nothing beats kindness,' said the horse. 'It sits quietly beyond all things.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”
― Transit
― Transit
“You could spend your whole life’, she said, ‘trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.”
― Outline
― Outline
“You said, Beauty is only that which is intense, has a vibrant energy.
You said, This thing we call life mustn't ever become something endured.”
― Greek Lessons
You said, This thing we call life mustn't ever become something endured.”
― Greek Lessons
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