“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
— André Gide
Quotes
Untethered
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.”
— Chogyam Trungpa
The Wonder
“And the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.”
— James Baldwin
Don’t I?
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock.”
— Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Stay Alive
“What do you need to do to stay alive?”
— Charles E. Cobb Jr., This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Cursed with Blessings
“Some of us are blessed with blessings,
some of us are cursed with them.”
Resurrection
Easter by Marie Howe
Two of the fingers on his right hand
had been broken
so when he poured back into that hand it surprised
him — it hurt him at first.
And the whole body was too small. Imagine
the sky trying to fit into a tunnel carved into a hill.
He came into it two ways:
From the outside, as we step into a pair of pants.
And from the center — suddenly all at once.
Then he felt himself awake in the dark alone.
Thirteen
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
— George Orwell, 1984
Plan for Prejudice
“Sometimes, knowing the barrier is there helps you hurdle over it.”
— Michelle Miller, CBS Saturday Morning
A Mind-Body Problem
“We are gods with anuses.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Lisa Marie Blair 