“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
― City of Bohane
― City of Bohane
“The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the authors of my fortune or misfortune; I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“..the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.”
― All Will Be Well: A Memoir
― All Will Be Well: A Memoir
“Oh give us a grim Tuesday of December, with the hardwind taking schleps at our heads, and the rain coming slantways off that hideous fucking ocean, and the grapes nearly frozen off us, and dirty ice caked up top of the puddles, and we are not happy, exactly, but satisfied in our despair.”
― City of Bohane
― City of Bohane
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