Kalyana Gallagher
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Kalyana Gallagher
as a shapeshifter, she hovers overhead in the guise of a raven, a crow, and sometimes a vulture.
Hourly History • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs (Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology)
“Carter called today, but I saw no point in talking to him. On the whole I talk to no one. I concentrate on the way light would strike filled Mason jars on a kitchen windowsill. I lie here in the sunlight, watch the hummingbird. This morning I threw the coins in the swimming pool, and they gleamed and turned in the water in such a way that I was
... See more“Why are you here.”
“Because you and I, we know something. Because we’ve been out there where nothing is. Because I wanted—you know why.”
— Pg. 212, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
“Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing.”
— Pg. 210, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
“ “What do you think about it,” Maria asked Carter.
“About what.”
“What I just told you. About the man at the trailer camp who told his wife he was going out for a walk in order to talk to God.”
“I wasn’t listening, Maria. Just give me the punch line.”
“There isn’t any punch line, the highway patrol just found him dead, bitten by a rattlesnake.”
“I’ll
... See more“…it goes as it lays, don’t do it the hard way.”
“The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake.”
—Pg. 200, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
“On those nights when Carter could not sleep she lay perfectly still, her eyes closed, and waited for the moment when Carter would begin banging the drawers, slamming doors, throwing a magazine across the bed where she lay.”
“You aren’t waking me up,” she would say then. “I’m not asleep.”
“Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable.”
... See more“Maria turned away. After that either she or Carter slept most nights in the other room. Some nights he said that he was tired, and some nights she said that she wanted to read, and other nights no one said anything.”
— Pg. 184, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
“I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this.”
— Pg. 183, Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion