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“There is always an idealized image in my head of how a thing will be, but it never matches up to the reality. You are the sole exception.”
― Soldier Sailor
― Soldier Sailor
“The ground now glittered like stardust, and in the world below, the mortals would be lifting their heads to the curved wedge of light in the sky, its face partially hidden.”
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
“For we were complex creatures of shades of gray, capable of wonderful and terrible things … of change, because our natures were not fixed like the stars in the sky but flowing as the river toward an unknown horizon.”
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
“From the outside a woman cradling a newborn looks peaceful. A new mother is not peaceful but in a jittery state of high alert. We declare her serene so we can leave her to it. So we can behold the glittering surface, remark on its beauty, and walk away.”
― Soldier Sailor
― Soldier Sailor
“When you have a pot belly and I have whiskers. When you are stooped and I am buckled. When it’s a Beckett play. When you wear beige anoraks and I wear bed jackets. Permanently, that is. When I am permanently wearing a bed jacket because I am permanently in a bed, and you are on the visitor’s chair listening to me witter on, and on, I will know When you are on statins and I am too bewildered to understand that this middle-aged man is my baby. —Oh, Time is coming for us, Sailor. Time will do us in— You hardly know what time is But soon you’ll find out. This nice middle-aged man whom I may or may not recognise. Because my mind may be mush by then. Mush like the food they spoon into me. I will still look at you and know Somehow”
― Soldier Sailor
― Soldier Sailor
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