Forrest Gander > Quotes

“Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is a shaping hand which is neither Godlike nor peaceful as you imagine.”
― Forrest Gander, Torn Awake

“Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself.”
― Forrest Gander

“Everyone knows how much I love you
All your gestures
Have become my gestures”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship”
― Forrest Gander

“Pero lo que significa y cómo lo significa y quién lo dice y a quién le toca morir así; me gustaría creer que hay esperanza, digamos, en el hecho de poner atención a las palabras.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Dear spider, in
this house eight
legs are too many.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“Within ten minutes of meeting, we'd exchanged love letters from the corners of our eyes.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Oh, when you get down to the licklog, just to be a good friend. To be consequent to those around me. I guess I can't see any virtue higher than that.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“And then smelling it,
feeling it before
the sound even reaches
him, he kneels at
cliff’s edge and for the
first time, turns his
head toward the now
visible falls that
gush over a quarter-
mile of uplifted sheet-
granite across the valley
and he pauses,
lowering his eyes
for a moment, unable
to withstand the
tranquility—vast, unencumbered,
terrifying, and primal.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“Sure, art doesn't save anybody the way a sack of rice does. But that doesn't mean it's worthless. There're plenty of ways of living in the world and among words and some of them are a fuck of a lot more predatory than others.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“You find
yourself in another
world you weren’t
looking for where
what you see is that
you have always been
the wolves
at the door. Left

ajar, gaping, your own
door.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“He would punctuate the remarkable things he said with silences, his extravagant gestures with absence.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Is there nightshade
in my brain? That
I conceive
your consequence
as some stage in
my need?”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again.

At which point I conceived a realm more real than life.

At which point there was at least some possibility.

Some possibility, in which I didn’t believe, of being with her once more.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“The break-hard
determination to
be a good person,
what happened
to that? How
is it true
I have to
go now? She's lost
my name, but the
occasion of my
presence begs
more. Who is my
mother now I am
unspoken for?”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language.

Something like a drifting swarm of bees.

At which point in the tetric silence that followed

I was swarmed by those bees and lost consciousness.

At which point there was no way out for me either.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“Remember when I was lying on your lap and you cleaned my ears with a Q-tip? What a strange, complex intimacy, your at once maternal and sexual tenderness.”
― Forrest Gander, As a Friend

“Kadın banyo kapısını tıklattı.”
― Forrest Gander, The Trace