I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for…
Penelope LivelyTag: relationships
…crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.
Penelope LivelyTag: life
And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it
Penelope LivelyTag: life
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.
Penelope LivelyYou have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.
Penelope LivelyForever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem.
Penelope LivelyAn ending is an artificial device; we like endings, they are satisfying, convenient, and a point has been made. But time does not end, and stories march in step with time.
Penelope LivelyHistory is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.
Penelope LivelyOld age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).
Penelope LivelyPerhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.
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