Clay Steakley

“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem there is no perfect ending. Indeed, there are infinite endings. Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“We have this mistaken idea that either we have regret or we get rid of it. Trungpa Rinpoche talked about holding the sadness of life in our heart while never forgetting the beauty of the world and the goodness of being alive.”
― Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

“Her deepest longing, perhaps, was to be loved unconditionally, and at the same time be left in peace. But she never told anyone. It is shameful and egotistical to hope for unconditional love and at the same time want to be left in peace. The mother’s inner worlds were neatly sealed—dark, gilded worlds.”
― Linn Ullmann, Unquiet

“Darkness overswept the land and on the sea the night floated strapped to a slab of wood”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night