Те,кто боится тьмы в себе, первыми станут искать ее в других. |
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Это смело — выстаивать против тяги привычного. Быть влюблённым в собственные нужды. |
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Желания ее просты: вскинуть лицо к солнцу, ощутить его тепло. Стиснуть в пальцах землю. Избежать возвращения в дом, где она родилась. |
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От уз семейной истории не удрать, как бы далеко ни уезжал. |
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Чем старше становлюсь, тем больше убеждаюсь, что величайшая доброта - принятие. |
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Вот они мы, вдвоем, не пара, а брат с сестрой, обречены жить всю жизнь вместе, в доме, где мы родились, в окружении призраков наших предков, призраков жизней, какие могли бы у нас быть. Со стопкой писем в чулане. С плоскодонкой на стропилах в сарае. Никто никогда не узнает, когда обратимся мы… Развернуть |
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All it really takes is a few words here and there. You can hang on to a few words for a long time. Fill in the rest with the fluff of your imagination.
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“Some people you just have to love from afar,” Jonathan says. |
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I don’t know that I believe her, but I’ve missed him too. We missed each other. We aimed and we missed. |
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She wanted me to be someone else. They always want you to be someone else. Even you want me to be someone else.
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As I pack up my few things and make the bed neat and tight, just as she taught me, I’m aware of how mercurial my emotions are, how last night my mother felt lost to me in a terrifyingly permanent way, and today she feels close by. Death is like that. Death is mercurial, too.
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Можно долго-долго жить в раковине, где родился. Но однажды она делается тесной. |
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I like those grades, sixth through ninth, my students still open, willing to reveal their curiosity and imagination and humor to me, willing to allow me mine.
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Patricia said that grace is accepting love, that we all spend so much more time resisting love than just taking love. It’s funny, isn’t it, to think of rejecting love. What a stupid thing to do. But I guess we do it all the time.
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If I sleep, my dreams are a continuation of my thoughts and my thoughts are like muscles, flexing and twitching inadvertently and repetitively, squeezing but never quite hard enough.
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I’ve never tried to control my father’s drinking, never suggested that he not have a drink when he wanted one. It would be like trying to separate a snake from a mouse.
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Old people are much more trusting and have time to talk. |
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I never knew before that moment that you can feel love, like a slight wind, when it’s strong enough. You can do this, they all seemed to be saying. This is where you can put your love safely.
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“It’s all very loaded, this topic.” “Everything’s going to be with us. Black and white is loaded.” |
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“I remember sitting alone in the evening on the grass one of the first nights we lived in that house and looking up at that tree, just a slender little tree with smooth bark, and I got this feeling about the tree, that I liked it and it liked me. And it occurred to me that the tree didn’t care if… Развернуть
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«He won’t go if I leave. I know he won’t.»
“Then he’s not really doing it for himself, is he?” “Not yet, not entirely. But he will, when he gets stronger.” “How can he grow stronger when you’re here letting him be weak? That’s not how people grow stronger. He needs to do it on his own.” Развернуть |
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I feel how flimsy a life is, how flimsy the universe is. I’m just going to die and not even leave a spit of light behind.
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-Все мы несем свое бремя, - говорит она. - Ты свое теперь знаешь. Это хорошо. Оно никогда не застанет тебя врасплох. |
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“I thought you lived with your parents.” “I’m pathetic, but not that pathetic.” |
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Моя учительница говорит: греки верили, что созерцание боли в искусстве помогает радоваться своей жизни как она есть. |
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