“I suppose we can all be prone at times to trapping certain countries in their distance, exotic pasts, ignoring their presents.”
― Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
― Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Oh, living is so uncomfortable. Everything presses in: the body demands, the spirit never ceases, living is like being weary but being unable to sleep–living is upsetting. You can’t walk around naked, either in body or in spirit.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“forever searching for love in forms it never exists, places it can never be”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
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