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Therese felt as though she were completely detached from everyone, the child included. She saw people and things, her own body and even her own mind, in the form of a mirage, as sort of cloud suspended outside herself.-FM

The beginning of the hot weather completely exhausted her. - FM

But he was the first man I had met for whom the life of the mind meant everything. -Francois Mauriac

Was the time of year when the freshness of the night hours persists all through the morning: when, from luncheon on, no matter how hot the sun has been, a hint of mist announces the oncoming of darkness. -Francois Mauriac

morning mist

And his young body plunging through the mist.
- Francois Mauriac

'Passion,' thought Therese, 'would made me clear sighted. I should take note of every detail in the man whom I desired.' -Francois Mauriac

Trees, for instance. Trees were something she had always loved, but now trees were more fascinating than ever. They're enormous trunks with your crusty bark, the rings of wood, all from a tiny seed.

The miracle of trees! - SM

They're really pure and heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realized what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet. -FM

People who 'wear their hearts upon their sleeves' have no story for me to tell, but I know the secrets of the hearts that are deep buried in, and mingled with, the filth of flesh. -TD

She had a sense that the dream had ended and she had slept on. -JD

She drove to the beach, but there was oil scum on the sand and a red tide in the flaccid surf and mounds of kelp at the water line. - JD

Resolutely Maria walked into the dressing room and began pending her hair back. - JD

She wondered if Tommy Lowe and the starlet had gone back to bz's later, and who had watched whom, and if Helene had been back from LA costa. - JD

Now I lie in the Sun and play solitaire and listen to the Sea (the sea is down the cliff but I am not allowed to swim, only on Sundays when we are accompanied) and watch a hummingbird. I try not to think of dead things and plumbing. I try not to hear the air conditioner in the bedroom and an Encino...
I try to live in the now and keep my eyes on the
Hummingbird.

It takes courage to be happy. - SM

'He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.'
-JD

And there are real people here with me now - people who just might stick around. - MQ

Why would God leave me all alone in Canada?-MQ

She always wanted more. She wanted the fairy tale, but got brain cancer instead, even though she was a good woman who never did anything wrong, nor did she harm anyone, ever. -MQ

Do you ignore that little angry man in my stomach --you just kept encouraging me, Richard Gere. -MQ

The angry man in my stomach wasn't happy. - MQ

But courage never comes.
I pray for words, and those evaporate instantly whenever I see The Girllibrarian at the library and I get so hot it's like my brain is boiling in my skull.-MQ

12 months have lit themselves on fire trying to accomplish what you are trying to accomplish. This, of course, reminded me of the 12 disciples of Jesus christ, including Bartholomew sometimes referred to as nathaniel, who is my namesake. I wonder if you, Richard gere, we're not the modern Day Jesus Christ of Buddhism. -MQ

There was a picture of a monk on fire. He looked like a pillar of flaming lava. It was hard to believe that the photo was an actual man burning alive because the reddish orange color almost looked beautiful and the man was perfectly still. -MQ

I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that but I'm telling you how it was. -JD

Facts are not always as important as pretending. Pretending gave that man the power he needed that day to speak his mind.

But I recognized something important that most people do not understand: that homeless man was pretending he had the right to speak openly and freely, and pretending can be more important than settling for what is greet upon as true --what everyone else is holding up as fact. -MQ

They seem to tilt in over the small patch of park with its rows of small trees and pig-colored polished marble descending in slabs. -SM