Izzy

“Maybe it hadn't been a community, but it had been a place. Now there weren't any places left, just separate houses with separate televisions and separate televisions and less and less dropping by.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“I want someone to care enough to say more than just "It's up to you what you do with your life." I don't have any opinions and I don't trust myself.”
― Phoebe Gloeckner

“I'm in the market for some present tense; I'm on the lookout, shopping around, more so every year. It's a seller's market—do you think I won't sell all that I have to buy it? Thomas Merton wrote, in a light passage in one of his Gethsemane journals: "Suggested emendation in the Lord's Prayer: Take out 'Thy Kingdom come' and substitute 'Give us time!'" But time is the only thing we have been given, and we have been given to time. Time gives us a whirl. We keep waking from a dream we can't recall, looking around in surprise, and lapsing back, for years on end. All I want to do is stay awake, keep my head up, prop my eyes open, with toothpicks, with trees.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“In the safe harbor of each other's company they could afford to abandon the ways of other people and concentrate on their own perceptions of things.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula