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Category: Alison McGhee

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

expectations, powerful, silence

All it takes is a single moment.

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won’t give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me.Not me. Not me. Not me.

leting-go, moving-on, sisters

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world’s great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

ocean, water, way

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren’t any more books left to swim in. That’s why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no more books forthcoming from that person. Their future books died with them. In the past I have found a series of books and loved it so much that all I wanted to do was read and read and read those books for the rest of my life. Then I would find out that the author was dead. Had in fact been dead for many a year. This has happened to me several times.

authors, books, dead-authors, reading

Wouldn’t want to miss a war, would I?

Clara Winter,” he said. “You are a word person and don’t ever forget it.”He was right. He knew. He could tell. It’s something that can be sensed. There’s a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

word-people, words

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Clara Winter,” he said. “You are a word person and don’t ever forget it.”He was right. He knew. He could tell. It’s something that can be sensed. There’s a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

word-people, words

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.