Anders

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“There was a deep wisdom behind the orgiastic and hysterical aspects of ancient religion; there is much to be said in favour of this flinging open of the floodgates to grief. It might be argued that the decorous little services of the West, the hushed voices, the self-control, our brave smiles and calmness either stifle the emotion of sorrow completely, or drive it underground where it lodges and proliferates in a malign and dangerous growth that festers for a lifetime.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

“because after a week without creation—the antithesis of genesis—comes a nightfall of alcohol intake, of cavortingfightingfornicating and other fundamental merriments, so in the scraped-up face of dawn I take to shakes and shivers and cries into an enemy pillow, growing mossy with hate.”
― Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat

“That has left me with the disorienting suspicion that I’ve always been repeating myself, that my every idea has been from the beginning, that my sense of discovery is merely my endless forgetting who I’ve been.”
― Flore Chevaillier, Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers