Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.
Julia GlassTime plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
Julia GlassTag: time
When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
Julia GlassTag: fate
My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.
Julia GlassWell, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even in the bottoms of a closet or two. But I was never a "collector." My love of books is a love of what they contain; they hold knowledge as a pitcher holds water, as a dress contains the mystery of a woman's exquisite body. Their physicality matters--do not speak to me of storing books as bytes!--but they should not inspire fetishistic devotion.
Julia GlassI'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
Julia GlassTag: expectations
Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?
Julia GlassTag: change
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.
Julia GlassTag: rain
Ira felt as if he'd contracted an all-over emotional itch, as if he'd put on a sweater made of spiritually abrasive wool- but to take it off would leave him dreadfully cold.
Julia GlassEver noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?
-I See You Everywhere
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