The Book of Beginnings and Endings Quotes

“How is it the seasons change? Do they change so slowly so creepingly because we so rarely break away from whatever it was that we were dreaming to notice? What the season brings us to suffer (because seasons, no matter how lovely, will bring us to suffer) it brings when we are not looking. I know the look of a cracked landscape, winter in black and white, flat and finite with a sunset on the horizon like a red heartbeat suffering there. It will take me longer each morning now to go out and face it, the leaves shivering then falling about as if to remind that somehow despite leavings, there is some magic, some beauty there. I don’t want it: the mountain view, the shimmer of summer rain, a troutfilled creek. How is it that I came to be here this way with the wind a suggestion that it was, indubitably was, autumn (already and again)?”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings

“The world then, was nothing more than lost messages, miscommunications--her heart, a daring carrier pigeon forever circling overhead.”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings

“That I love you makes me want to run and hide.”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings

“What image of beauty we hold exists so brilliantly, so beautifully in our minds, and the sad task then is to somehow transcribe this image so that it becomes viewable to others.”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings

“After all, when one goes out into the city with the sole goal of capturing the city, only to discover that the city is nothing but a restless shifting of scaffolding, then one must refrain from going out.”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings

“With dreaming, we speak differently. We use the past tense. Dreams are about the past, but we want them to be about the present, the future. That is, we will make them mean something.”
― Jenny Boully, The Book of Beginnings and Endings