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True hope is severed from expectation.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

the rain that held the light
that fell, the rain that fell,
the light that held

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone.

I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?

I could easily imagine carrying a favoured item to the ends of the earth, if only to help believe I'd see its beloved owner again.

I began the piling of words,
to dig myself out
to dare myself

Time is a blind guide.

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

What is a man," said Athos, "who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.

Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

the dead lose every sense except hearing.

The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.

I see that I must give what I most need.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Our bodies surround what has always been there

If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Everything in this world is what has been left behind.

There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Taffy is the color of toast and butter.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.