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I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.
“How is that even possible?” the philosopher says. “He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.” She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn’t it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Three things no one has ever said about me:
You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously.”
― Dept. of Speculation
You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously.”
― Dept. of Speculation
“You gave me
in secret one thing
to perceive, the
tall blue starry
strangeness of being
here at all.”
― Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems
in secret one thing
to perceive, the
tall blue starry
strangeness of being
here at all.”
― Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems
“There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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