"THERE IS a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up; holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship‘s, smooths and contains the rocker. It‘s an inside kind—wrapped tight like skin. Then there is a loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive, on its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one‘s own feet going seem to come from a far-off place."
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"They had become an occasional mutter—like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle‘s eye; a soft moan when she sees another chip in her one good platter; the low, friendly argument with which she greets the hens. Nothing fierce or startling. Just that eternal, private conversation that takes place between women and their tasks."
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"to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom." ..... It's like she answered the question she posed in the foreward of the book.
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"In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it."
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"But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day. "
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"Where bits of news soaked like dried beans in spring water—until they were soft enough to digest." - some news takes a lot from us...
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"Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn‘t get interested in leaving life or living it" ... Somehow feels apt for the dilemma during this pandemic.
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Vignettes Overseas II
Off Algiers
Oh give me neither love nor tears,
Nor dreams that sear the night with fire,
Go lightly on your pilgrimage
Unburdened by desire.
Forget me for a month, a year,
But, oh, beloved, think of me
When unexpected beauty burns
Like sudden sunlight on the sea.
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