Kara Rae Garland

“Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The Truth About Celia

“In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely.”
― André Breton, Nadja