Julia Hall

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski