Sublime

freshman year, the year Jane’s grandmother died and Jane moved with her mother and sister into her grandmother’s house in Awadapquit.

her sorrow remained lodged in her body for the next fifty-six years.

He survived, as he put it to himself, by dividing his nature from his soul; so he left his nature in London on the station platform, and picked up his soul in Aldleigh as if it were left luggage. How he could explain to this ardent boy that no, he didn’t want to get coffee, and sit together on the train; that yes, he was aware of the various places

One little bird, however, performs a migratory feat reminiscent of birds’ wintering-on-the-moon days: starting out from Alaska, the blackpoll warbler flies three thousand miles east to Nova Scotia. There he gorges himself on webworms and sawflies and gets fat while waiting for a strong northwest wind to blow him off his twig out over the Atlantic O

Sapphists