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“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Girl at War
― Girl at War
“This country’s passion for property is built into the blood, a current as huge and primal as desire. Centuries of being turned out on the roadside at a landlord’s whim, helpless, teach your bones that everything in life hangs on owning your home.”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”
― A Woman of Independent Means
― A Woman of Independent Means
“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”
― The Last Book in the Universe
― The Last Book in the Universe
“And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and the sky itself, and to the floating bird. I too leave the fret and enclosure of my own life. I too dip myself toward the immeasurable.”
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
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