“What had Deidamia thought would happen, I wondered, when she had her women dance for me. Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell. I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and the way his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death at the end of the world.”
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“The light came slow and limping, never fully arriving.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“There was a sound like a rush of wings in the blackish clouds, and I knew his spirit had left him. I imagined it like a great flock of birds, soaring, scattering, coming to rest everywhere.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we’ll find the God that exists behind them.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“who knows what it dreamed of in the first springs of its life, escaping the cottontail’s teeth and everything dangerous else. Who knows when supreme patience took hold, and the wind’s wandering among its leaves was enough of motion, of travel.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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