“I am a mass of contradictions.”
― 13 Little Blue Envelopes
― 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.”
― The Last Little Blue Envelope
― The Last Little Blue Envelope
“I guess life is full of maybes.”
― Girl at Sea
― Girl at Sea
“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”
― Palimpsest
― Palimpsest
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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