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“Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down
into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.
I can feel that other day running underneath this one
like an old videotape”
― Glass, Irony and God
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down
into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.
I can feel that other day running underneath this one
like an old videotape”
― Glass, Irony and God
“I am a restrained person.
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― An Oresteia
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― An Oresteia
“I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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