Chris Burkhalter

“No one who has private thoughts going on in his own head is quite sure of their not being overheard. Any child knows that.”
― Joy Williams, The Changeling

“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“If we do not alter with the times, the times yet alter us. We may stand perfectly still, but our surroundings shift round and we are not in the same relationship to them for long; just as a chameleon, matching perfectly the greenness of a leaf, should know that the leaf will one day fade.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek

“It wasn’t happiness, but something at the time that seemed more intoxicating; it was abandon.”
― Patti Smith, Bread of Angels: A Memoir