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If Blimp is an expert traveler in new lands, I am this woman anchored always in the same place.
You want to parade around among the living like nothing happened? Also fine: welcome to the club.”
Maybe it’s the feelings of pleasure and pain that always leave a more vivid sensation, because they’re things that happen in the body.
meaning of his words, seemed also to suggest, I am such a majestic being that I cannot allow myself the world of men.
It seemed like, more than a family, she ran an office of state employees, and her entire job consisted of understanding priorities and delegating responsibilities to people she would have preferred to fire.
“At first you think he’s a hero, after ten years he’s more like a sucker, after twenty he’s a blockhead, and by then it’s too late to break up.”
friendship already seemed like the kind that comes unexpectedly, but then turns out to be lifelong.
William in the Kilkenny window, upright and attentive, finally turning toward me, recognizing me, granting me the certainty of his gaze.
Action and consequence, scene after scene, from now on my father and I remember everything with the sharpness of an alarm that neither of us will be able to turn off again.
It never occurs to him that so many good things could be happening to me that sometimes I go weeks without thinking of him.
Maybe not fully learning your lessons is ultimately what keeps you alive.
Was that what poetry was? A leap to another place without moving at all?
“It will knock at the door,” said my sister. “It will have his voice.” “His voice?” She peered at us fearfully. “If you answer, inspiration will disappear forever.”
