Amelia

“I want to be able go down inside the chasm.”
― Kazim Ali, Indian Winter

“You still write poetry,’ I say, a current of electricity running through me. ‘I never stopped,’ she says simply. ‘I don’t publish much anymore. I don’t think I want to. The whole scene – it bothers me. I would rather do my political work and teach my classes.’ She looks at me with a questioning look. ‘Does it upset you?”
― Kazim Ali, Indian Winter

“I've tried acupuncture. An old Chinese doctor stuck needles in my skeptical ankle and told me to lie down. The table was hard. I was cold. I fell asleep immediately. When he woke me twenty minutes later, I was astonished. Unfortunately, this extraordinary result had absolutely no impact on my ability to sleep at night. He would have to have come every evening and jabbed needles in my ankle.”
― Marie Darrieussecq, Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

“We know more about Proust's asthma than his insomnia, and yet the two go together—along with his anorexia.”
― Marie Darrieussecq, Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia