elise anderson

“That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry.”
― Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

“but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“When did he first notice that in himself, that little fascination with damage and its consequences? He might alarm her. He might mean to alarm her. Doing damage to this fragile night because it was such an isolated thing, an accident, with a look of meaning about it and no meaning at all.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Jack

“I supposed to savour is to hold something in your mouth for more than a moment, to linger and draw out its details. Sometimes you are far too hungry to wait, and things get lost. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that I write things into remembrance. I like to linger long enough to name pleasurable things and seek out more.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour