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“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“I'm learning so many different ways to be quiet. There's how I stand in the lawn, that's one way. There's also how I stand in the field across from the street, that's another way because I'm farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There's how I don't answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I'm not home when people knock. There's daytime silent where I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There's shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then there's the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can't be quiet anymore. That's how this machine works.”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“Belonging in more than one world means that you end up belonging in none of them.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“But joy is a small, tenacious crop, especially in soil that hasn't grown any for a long time.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
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