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1. "Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore." ~ Lauren Groff
2. "When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home." ~ Lauren Groff
3. "Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving." ~ Lauren Groff
4. "we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it is imaginary. And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past." ~ Lauren Groff
5. "And this is what we felt: vertigo, an icicle through our strong hearts, our long-lost childhoods. Sunshine in a field and crickets and the sweet tealeaf stink of a new ball mitt and a rock glinting with mica and a chaw of bubblegum wrapping its sweet tendrils down our throats and the warm breeze up our shorts and the low vibrato of lake loons and the sun and the sun and the warm sun and this is what we felt; the sun." ~ Lauren Groff
6. "The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice was smooth and kind, and once in a while an observation that would ring so true it vibrated like flicked crystal." ~ Lauren Groff
7. "Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?" ~ Lauren Groff
8. "I never sleep late, and I know what this means: the worst cowards are the ones who refuse to look at what they fear." ~ Lauren Groff
9. "If he were more commanding, he would not be a person people would leave." ~ Lauren Groff
10. "Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating." ~ Lauren Groff
11. "Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow." ~ Lauren Groff
12. "There was the stink of burning martyr in the air." ~ Lauren Groff
13. "Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions--how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion." ~ Lauren Groff
14. "Then he tells his son, "This feels like that breath you take after coming up from a long swim underwater. The most gorgeous feeling, that sip of air you feared you'd never have again." He looks at Compass, and touches his cheek, gently. "Surfacing," he says." ~ Lauren Groff
15. "As I touched the beast I remembered how, even on that long-ago night, I could feel a tremendous thing moving in the depths below me, something vast and white and singing." ~ Lauren Groff
16. "And as I walked, I believed myself to be an Adam setting foot in a new Eden, sinless and wild-eyed, my sinews still stiff with creation." ~ Lauren Groff
17. "Famous people consume us because we are bored." ~ Lauren Groff
18. "His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not." ~ Lauren Groff
19. "In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world." ~ Lauren Groff
20. "Bit believes the treats' chemical afterburn is what the world beyond Arcadia must taste like." ~ Lauren Groff
21. "No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now." ~ Lauren Groff
22. "There is no ending, no neatness... where water is concerned. It is wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous; it is dark and carries the mud, and it is clear and the cleanest thing. Too much of it kills us, and not enough kills us, and it is what makes us, mostly. Water is the cleverest substance, wily beyond the stretch of our mortal imaginations. And no matter where it is pent, no matter if it is air or liquid or solid, it will someday, inevitably, find its way out." ~ Lauren Groff
23. "...sick, my brothers are sending me home. This place infects me. Templeton my smooth little pill... such images I have. Such voices, that high voice, the little girl's so naughty, talking to me, all the time now. How I hate her... the train is empty, Albany a small, spangled fish... this train is all brown velvet... the train slows, I am in Templeton, oh. Templeton, Templeton, the train says, slowing down. The lake, the blue, is an embrace." ~ Lauren Groff
24. "Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak..." ~ Lauren Groff
25. "...because when you've had a good enough Teacher, you're all your own Leaders." ~ Lauren Groff
26. "myself. I didn't let myself think of what would happen if he never called me." ~ Lauren Groff
27. "Until I talked to Primus Dwyer, I wouldn't decide anything on the Lump," ~ Lauren Groff
28. "Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain." ~ Lauren Groff
29. "At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing." ~ Lauren Groff
30. "As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself." ~ Lauren Groff
31. "I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms." ~ Lauren Groff
32. "Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable." ~ Lauren Groff
33. "If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it." ~ Lauren Groff
34. "My childhood was as conventional as you could get." ~ Lauren Groff
35. "But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways." ~ Lauren Groff
36. "She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core." ~ Lauren Groff
37. "Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community." ~ Lauren Groff
38. "...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all..." ~ Lauren Groff
39. "It leaves him breathless at times, how much faith people put in one another. So fragile, the social contract: we will all stand by the rules, move with care and gentleness, invest in the infrastructure, agree with the penalties of failure. That this man driving his truck down the street won't, on a whim, angle into the plate glass and end things. That the president won't let his hand hover over the red button and, in moment of rage or weakness, explode the world. The invisible tissue of civilization: so thin, so easily rendable. It's a miracle that it exists at all." ~ Lauren Groff
40. "The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering at night in front of a comforting bit of fire...The world then was no less terrifying than it is now, with our nightmares of bombs and disease and technological warfare. Anything held the ability to set of fear...a nail dropped in a the hay, wolves circling at the edge of the woods..." ~ Lauren Groff
41. "Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath." ~ Lauren Groff
42. "If he cannot be infinite - his lov emeeting its eventual exhaustion, his light its shadows - this is the nature of landscapes. The forest meets mountain, the sea the shore. Brain meets bone, meets skin, meets hair; meets air. Day would not be, without night. Every limit, a wise woman once wrote, is a beginning as well as an ending." ~ Lauren Groff
43. "It was somehow clear, even then, that the monster had been lonely. The folds above its eye made the old face look wistful, and it emanated such a strong sense of solitude that each human standing in the park that day felt miles from the others, though we were shoulder-to-shoulder, touching." ~ Lauren Groff
44. "Stubborn heart,' I said. 'Long memory. Bad mix." ~ Lauren Groff
45. "...right now, right now, I am strange. It is strange. This life is strange. For now, only for now, I am happy." ~ Lauren Groff
46. "A man living in a place that doesn't change doesn't expect it ever will." ~ Lauren Groff
47. "They can wound, stories, they can blister." ~ Lauren Groff
48. "In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies." ~ Lauren Groff
49. "He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall." ~ Lauren Groff
50. "He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories." ~ Lauren Groff
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