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“You can speak as though your life is a thread, a narrative unspooling in time, and a story is a thread, but each of us is an island from which countless threads extend out into the world” (144)

“Maybe preservatives are where a historian’s urges meet a cook’s capacities. I wish that I could put up yesterday’s evening sky for all posterity, could preserve a night of love, the sound of a mountain stream, a realization as it sets my mind afire […], line them up in jars where they might be admired in the interim and tasted again as needed” (82-83).

“Books are solitudes in which we meet.” (54)
I’m gnawing on the bars of my enclosure, inject this book into my veins

I wish I was a creative writing professor so I could start teaching this book, TOMORROW