“What is older than desire?
the bare tree asked.
Sorrow, said the sky.
Sorrow is a river
older than desire.
— Robert Hass, from “February: Question” in “February Notebooks: The Rains,” Summer Snow: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)”
― Summer Snow: New Poems
the bare tree asked.
Sorrow, said the sky.
Sorrow is a river
older than desire.
— Robert Hass, from “February: Question” in “February Notebooks: The Rains,” Summer Snow: New Poems (Ecco, 2020)”
― Summer Snow: New Poems
“Sometimes it feels like I didn't even exist before that. Like you invented me.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Before he could speak and harm her with words while she lay naked and exposed, while he prepared a judgment, she was preparing her metamorphosis, so that whatever Sabina he struck down she could abandon like a disguise, shedding the self he had seized upon and say: "That was not me."
Any devastating words addressed to the Sabina he had possessed, the primitive one, could not reach her then; she was already halfway out of the forest of their desire, the core already far away, invulnerable, protected by flight. What remained was a costume: it was piled on the floor of his room, and empty of her.”
― A Spy in the House of Love
Any devastating words addressed to the Sabina he had possessed, the primitive one, could not reach her then; she was already halfway out of the forest of their desire, the core already far away, invulnerable, protected by flight. What remained was a costume: it was piled on the floor of his room, and empty of her.”
― A Spy in the House of Love
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