“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“I think our souls are always being hole-punched, like old train tickets. In the end, we're all perforated. If we were buckets, we wouldn't hold water.”
― The Future for Curious People
― The Future for Curious People
“The air was already drunk with humidity when I stepped outside on that first morning.”
― On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
― On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
“Not wishing, however, to squander my hard-earned advantage, I quickly recovered myself by using the trick of deflection: exerting acute concentration on something innately banal. In the visual equivalent of a fingertip search,”
― The Dead of August
― The Dead of August
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