Indelicacy Quotes

“Still in the process of becoming, the soul makes room.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“I wanted to sit quietly in front of the window as the cat did. I wanted to show my excitement like the dog.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“You try to make yourself abnormal on purpose," he said. "You think it makes you better than the other people around you.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“I, on the other hand, spent those days lost in my reading. I sat in front of the fire sometimes with my husband, and sometimes alone. I forgot where I was, so forceful were the settings and characters in those books I read, so fine and deep. Yet when I came to, it wasn't unpleasant. In fact, it pleased me very much.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“was true, I was mean sometimes. But I didn’t have it in me to be kind to someone who saw me only in relation to property and propriety.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“We were born to die, but death can feel unreal if we’re comforted in the right ways.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“What makes you do it, then?'
'My soul,' I said boldly. I didn't care how it sounded.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“I wanted to tell her about my writing, but I was afraid she would think I was exaggerating my relationship to it, that I was lying. After all, I wasn't a real writer, yet I wrote every day. Though I hadn't cleaned for a while, to say that I was a maid would probably have been a more accurate way to explain who I was.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Writing was not the only thing I wanted to do, but the important thing, I thought, was that I wanted to do it more than anything else. I would write for an entire day, then do nothing for days on end. I'd look at my notebook and feel bored. After some time, however, it was my life that was boring, and I missed writing, so I would begin to write again.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always. And for a little while a small part of me can be empty too.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Then I was alone and I didn't like it. Maybe I should be alone always, I thought”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Why did I get so dressed up when no one would see me? It is better that way, to give fancy things to my writing and my own mind, better than wasting them on people I don't like,”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Why did I get so dressed up when no one would see me? It is better that way, to give fancy things to my writing amd my own mind, better than wasting them on people I don't like,”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Later on we would all be dead, but the cabinet would remain, and the people who used it would be different, though likely related to the ones who had used it before.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“We all carry our lives in us, not just our problems or nightmares, but something of what we were before.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Occasionally a man would walk by and ask what I was doing. "A menu for a dinner party," I would say. Or, "I am writing down my dreams." When too many men had walked by with this same question, or some version of it, I said, "Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it's interfering with my concentration." I was a rich woman now; I could say these things.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy