“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming.”
― Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
― Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
“The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.”
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world. —Czeslaw Milosz The Separate Notebooks”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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