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Mar 30

“I stumbled in a stillness so complete that I could hear the gears of the huge clock mounted somewhere on the balcony gnawing upon time.” Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (346)

Mar 21

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.” Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

Feb 9

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude but compassion holding its breath.” The House of Mirth

“Oh, the slow cold drip of the minutes on her head! She had a vision of herself lying on the black walnut bed- and the darkness would frighten her, and if she left the light burning the dreary details of the room would brand themselves forever on her brain” The House of Mirth

Jan 5

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever through one’s head.” Mark Twain

Jan 4

“

giving to steal and cruel kind
a heart to fear,to doubt a mind,
to differ a disease of same,
to conform the pinnacle of am

though dull were all we taste as bright,
bitter all utterly things sweet,
maggoty minus and dumb death
all we inherit,all bequeath

and nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why men breathe—
because my Father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all

” “my father moved through dooms of love,” e e cummings