Tara > Tara's Quotes

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH.
The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in order to stop the men. The fairies have left the men's reality in order to destroy it by making a new one.”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

“Friendship was not an idea or a status you took for granted, but something you did, over and over:”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

“The mind is in a day freak zone, surfing earth's hurtling horizons.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“This is what writing does to you, it seems, it turns objects that used to be just things in your life into things that must be described, and at the same time makes them feel increasingly indescribable.”
― Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief

“as in musical chairs when there’s one fewer seat than there are humans who need it, but so long as the music plays the number of seats is immaterial and everyone is still in the game. You have to not stop. You have to keep moving. You have this glorious orbit and when you’re orbiting you’re impact-proof and nothing can touch you. When the planet is galloping through space and you gallop after it through light and dark with your time-drunk brain, nothing can end. There could be no end, there can be only circles.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital