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“Because there is trust too, in feeling small.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Even when I’m caught off guard by a lathery shade of peach on the bottom corner of a painting at the Met, as if being reminded that I haven’t seen all the colors, and how there’s more to see, and how one color’s newness can invalidate all of my sureness.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“I don’t require much to feel far-removed; to impose my wanderings on what’s close. Because of this, my friend and I have started calling ourselves nook people. Those of us who seek corners and bays in order to redeploy our hearts and not break the mood. Those of us who retreat in order to cubicle our flame. Who collect sea glass. Who value a deep pants pocket. Who are our own understudies and may as well have shadowboxes for brains.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
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