Sentences that sing

“It was the Fourth of July, and I had forgotten all of wide space and all of historical time. I opened the blinds a crack like eyelids, and it all came exploding in on me at once—oh yes, the world.” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see.”

Cate Hall

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-a-jerk-or-a-liar

Doing brain laundry (separating my thoughts into lights and darks). 

Update: left one dark thought in the lights, ruined the whole load.

– @jzux

I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul blood and bone shop of the heart

W.B.Yeats

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

“I love it when smart people explain things to me.”
— Laura Marling

‘There is a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.’ — Leonard Cohen

“Admire the world for never ending on you” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

What is the situation in that body? — Rachel Katz