The Physics of Imaginary Objects Quotes

“We pass each other notes in the hollows of our collarbones.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“We love our secrets; anything hidden is so dear to us, we who are always on display”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“I sang colors to counteract the onset of gray winter. Cadmium yellow, brown madder, cerulean blue, I whispered, invoking pause.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“We will know each other by the way our watches slip from our wrists, the bruises on our knees, our winged shoulder blades tenting silk dresses.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“He had things he wanted to tell me too; I knew by the way his breath hung in the air before us.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“You kiss my cheek and leave a honey imprint that itches
as it dries.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives her a hard lump of grief to use as bait. It rings like a coin in the river.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“I wanted to tell him I loved him and I couldn't remember how we met. He had things he wanted to tell me too; I knew by the way his breath hung in the air before us. There were so many things inside us, and it comforted me to think of them there, curled up, content, for the time being, to be hidden”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Sometimes a child is waiting for
her turn on the swingset when everything is shadow.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“We will not stick our heads in ovens. We will not throw ourselves from bridges, nor weight our pockets, nor disturb our veins.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Underwater, we are transparent”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Beneath the wishbone of her legs, the fox shudders. The moon falls right out of the
sky. Fur springs up to cover wounds, its tail traces an “S” on the asphalt.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Her mother held a wet cloth to her brow for fifteen months while bees died in the space between the window and screen.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“A bridge is no stronger than its weakest span.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“A man is no stronger than his weakest artery. They offer a point of least resistance, and upon the degree of resistance does their own life and safety depend.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Second daughter walks outside where everything smells like a ghost. She leaves without her red cloak, without her father's ax, without breadcrumbs for the path home. She has only her proud virginity that clangs like a bell, her will to escape like an egg slipping free and her curiosity, that strange puss, the part of her brain hat claws toward the dark. In the night, in the black fringe of the forest, she could be anyone. She could be the witch sipping boy-blood, the doctor scraping lichen for his collection, the girl who runs and runs and runs.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“First Daughter throws her wool mitten into the fireplace to see the yellow smoke. She loves things for the colors they burn”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“We git six across the backseat and shiver together, arms and legs wrapped like eels around each other.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“We love our secrets; anything hidden is so dear to us, we who are always on display.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling in my attic (heaven), a single coffee mug, a pair. Him, the one that I misplaced somewhere. Except for him, each one I've lost, I've found again - as with omens, names, healed-over skin, to forget it to discover.”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Sometimes it felt like my heart beats so slow it stuttered and paused, and I could trace the whole path of a leaf falling outside the window before it started again”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects

“Only son screams for his bottle. Mother says, "He has such strong lungs. Perhaps he will be a soldier”
― Tina May Hall, The Physics of Imaginary Objects