The Marriage Bed Quotes

“I stared out the window at what was left of the moon. You went on to sleep. I put my hand on the flat of your back, feeling you breathe until I couldn’t keep my eyes open and followed you into our own little patch of woods, where, it turns out, we’re all we ever need.”
― Tommy Hays, The Marriage Bed

“Poetry became a structured way to be alone with his thoughts and, at the same time, a very real if vicarious way of being in the world.”
― Tommy Hays, The Marriage Bed

“How could she say this was catastrophizing, he thought? It’s not catastrophizing if it’s a catastrophe.”
― Tommy Hays, The Marriage Bed