Sandy > Sandy's Quotes

“Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
a life that is good is a life that's forgiving.
We're creatures of contact regardless of whether
we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more--
since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore.
So we make ourselves open while knowing full well
it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.”
― David Rakoff

“How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?”
― David Markson, Vanishing Point

“What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.”
― Barry Hannah, Airships

“Deep Song


Belief is what
buries us—that

& the belief in belief—
No longer

do I trust liltlessness
—leeward

is the world's
way—Go on

plunge in
—the lungs will

let us float.
Joy is the mile-

high ledge
the leap—a breath

above the lip of the abandoned
quarry—belief

the dark the deep.”
― Kevin Young, Jelly Roll

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
― John Cheever