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“I could feel myself melting away. I thought I was like water but I had no cup to hold me.”
― A Thousand Moons
― A Thousand Moons
“What’s in the past can’t be changed and what’s to come can’t be known and you can’t give your life to worrying. Sure you can’t. All you have to do is be kind and you’ll have lived a good life.”
― From a Low and Quiet Sea
― From a Low and Quiet Sea
“I started to cry, not like a child, but like the old woman I am, slow, slight tears that no one sees, no one dries.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“There’s a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in”
― Us
― Us
“Perhaps this is what all prayer is, when the ceremony and the theology are peeled away, a serious stillness in which one talks quietly to one’s own best self.”
― The Porpoise
― The Porpoise
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