

“This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world.”
― The Blue Guitar
― The Blue Guitar

“I guard my memories of my lost one jealously, keep them securely under wraps, like a folio of delicate watercolours that must be protected from the harsh light of day.”
― Ancient Light
― Ancient Light

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― The Sea
― The Sea

“...What I want is to be like I him. I want the gall, the gumption--for that is what it takes--to ask people I do not know if I may come into their lives, without fearing that they might say no, or fearing that once they let me in, they might hurt me. I want to know, truly know, others, reach out to people who would otherwise just come and go, passing through my life as strangers.”
― Tilled Earth : Stories
― Tilled Earth : Stories
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