The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories Quotes

“Give sorrow occasion and let it go, or your heart will imprison you in constant February, a chain-link fence around frozen soil, where your dead will stack in towers past the point of grieving. Let your tears fall for the dead, and as one who is suffering begin the lament . . . do not neglect his burial.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories

“I told myself all the way to Philadelphia that I did not have to justify my mourning. One is responsible for feeling something and being done with it.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories

“Let your weeping be bitter and your wailing fervent; then be comforted for your sorrow. Find in grief the abandon you used to find in love; grieve the way you used to fuck.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories

“... I was certain that if I ran hard enough ... I would find myself back in the raw heart of time, that point of detachment, and be beat out again, with nothing at all behind me.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories

“... I was certain that if I ran hard enough... I would find myself back in the raw heart of time, that point of detachment, and be beat out again, with nothing at all behind me.”
― Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories