Eve

“The opportunity for the fun you seek is always here, and here,
and here. And for me, today is not the day that it is, today is
in fact a brand new day, a day that has truly never before
existed.”
― Nathanael Koah, Birds on a Carousel

“In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“When you were a child, you tell me, you
lived under a tin roof, and whenever it rained, beneath its
slanting body, you’d sit and listen to the millions of pouring
droplets. In them you found tiny signs of the world, a place
where you could make sense of things through a divine sound
that poured over you.

This sound, you say, cloaked
your entire childhood, and underneath this sound were the
memories of your unfledged years.



She seems to have
cut ties with time; a minute to her would be a meaningless
sound, an hour a gentle breeze. She seems to glide through
time, as opposed to everyone else who scurries behind it;
perhaps her relationship with time has resulted in mutual
indifference, for they have lived with one another for so long
that they’ve gone their separate ways; but they respect each
other, her and time, from a metaphysical distance.”
― Nathanael Koah, Birds on a Carousel

“We acquire the feelings of others, especially beloved others, and imagine that what we have never seen or touched belongs to us, too, by imaginative connection.”
― Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays