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“It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.”
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
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“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
--from "The Moon and the Yew Tree", written 22 October 1961”
― Ariel
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
--from "The Moon and the Yew Tree", written 22 October 1961”
― Ariel
“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”
― I Await the Devil's Coming
― I Await the Devil's Coming
“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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