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“Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song.”
― The Upstairs House
― The Upstairs House
“Here I was, pondering the incongruity of being a mother and an academic, of devoting oneself to two projects, which is to say living a life, which is, I guess, no incongruity at all. Merely living, merely choosing, in each moment, who and what to which you will attend. The Latin, atendere, means to stretch.”
― The Upstairs House
― The Upstairs House
“I became the pit of the fruit that had once been me, my meat eaten slowly, bite by fleshy bite.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Forward only, never back. Do not, in your mind, keep a tally of past horrors. Do not question decisions that cannot be unmade, dwell on actions that cannot be undone. The power to equivocate is no power at all, and that you've ever though it to be is your weakness.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
“Above him, around him, the elder dreams of soil. Dreams of glassy, glinting snow. Dreams of its own greatness - taller, wider, more light. It knows nothing of self-sabotage, regret, or restitution.”
― What Should Be Wild
― What Should Be Wild
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