So, Stranger Quotes

“We didn't pray but we drank
our coffee out of the same mugs
every morning, which we decided
was almost the same thing.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“I want to know what the world knows
& I can't tell if that's because I'm a poet
or because I have hands.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“There has to be a word for the kind of loneliness shared by two, a loneliness big enough to rechristen itself as lineage.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“My philosophy
professor says the thing
Plato called math, Cicero
called music, the way my father
knew my name for 20 years
before I was born but
to this day must still be
reminded of my birthday.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“The unmooring
of the wrists is absolutely out of
the question: I've learned all I need
to know about stillness. In these bird
bones, there is no noise anymore
that couldn't pass for music.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“So all I remember of my ancestry
is what fits on the back of a postcard.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“When I swallow
the sea he wakes up gasping & I am sure of nothing
except that I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm still sorry.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger

“I pick up the phone mostly because it's raining,
& my father says how come you never
call me anymore & I say how come you never
take your meds.”
― Topaz Winters, So, Stranger