Betwixt-and-Between Quotes

“The important of the beginning is to make possible the love affair; the importance of the ending is to make impossible the love affair.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

“What then of all the plot in between I have honestly forgotten? I feel a nausea of panic that I will die soon.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

“Can you give to someone else what has been? That's the task of the poet.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

“But when do the daydreams begin and the dreams end, and where does the sky end and the prairie grass begin? There are stars in the grass.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

“Our drive to keep and preserve seems to have achieved only the obliteration of self and memory.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

“In order to be a better writer and better reader, I need to believe in my own death and in the death of others.”
― Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life