When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
The odd feeling comes which you know may not be right but which still inhabits you: I belong below people.
Starkly in an instant she saw herself as she really was-alone in a wood standing among blue shadows with no sounds and the air a sort of black ice. She had no coat. All the people she’d known had forg...
So many things in this world were cracked and sad, and still a glowing showed through and moments came when everything was lit and love happened. Every tree stood where it belonged, each bird had perf...
She was pulling a rope out of the water and knew it was coming to the end when the barnacles started to appear and they became more think and clustered. Then it was strangely peaceful and the sound wa...
Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been?I guess far away.Yes you were. Too far away.They sat in silence.You know you frightened me a little, she said. At the beginning. No.You did....
She rolled herself back so she wouldn’t leave anything out. Sometimes time spread out like ink in water but it also had an order and one thing could not come without the other coming first.
Most people when you get up close are not more in focus, but less.
It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn’t true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.
I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, yo...
Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New Yor...
[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
For a girl, with each boy it’s as though a petal gets plucked each time.
Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. Peo...
Who ever said that one got what one wanted. It was a small thing compared to... well, to a lot of things. She’d gotten over things before none like this she’d left things behind this was more she coul...
All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things. Her father used to say they talked too much. There was much to say, s...
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the po...
A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.
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