It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
Shirley HazzardAt first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
Shirley HazzardIn the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.
Shirley HazzardThey walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth.
Shirley HazzardTags: youth
Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.
Shirley HazzardI was moved, too, to see her excited as a child--but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved.
Shirley HazzardTags: the-bay-of-noon
We take our bearings from the wrong landmark, wish that when young we had studied the stars - name the flowers for ourselves and the deserts after others. When the territory is charted, its eventual aspect may be quite other than what was hoped for. One can only say, it will be a whole - a region from which a few features, not necessarily those that seemed prominent at the start, will stand out in clear colours. Not to direct, but to solace us; not to fix our positions, but to show us how we came.
Shirley HazzardMy need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire
Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However, it required merely some slight attention on his part to restore all her apprehensions - for these extremes of feeling only existed within the compass of her love."
"In One's Own House
They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know.
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