Bliss Is Your Birthright Quotes

“He had been drinking the world for thirty years and calling the thirst destiny, and a widow on the grass, whose son he had spent as tackle, sat the head of the machine down at its last table and taught it the one word missing from its whole vocabulary. Enough.”
― Matri, Bliss Is Your Birthright

“So watch, too, how a woman grows the one thing the tests cannot get into.”
― Matri, Bliss Is Your Birthright

“The mind is a sieve, the boy says — pour the ocean through it and come back and find it dry; whatever it is given, it has already stopped counting. Now put a crown on the sieve and hand it the treasury of the world. That was Cyrus. Lydia down, Ionia down, Babylon swallowed in a night without a battle — and the same restlessness back on a horse the next season, riding at a grass country with nothing in it he could spend. Because the appetite was never for anything, keeper. That is the machine's founding secret, first edition, every edition: it cannot arrive. It can only continue.”
― Matri, Bliss Is Your Birthright

“There is a small silence — not an absence; a making-of-room.”
― Matri, Bliss Is Your Birthright

“Keep what they love, and reverse the polarity of one detail.”
― Matri, Bliss Is Your Birthright