I couldn’t decide if the answer was an indication that he was losing interest, or he felt defeated. Perhaps the former, I thought. He had never given up an argument from defeat.
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
I always imagine writing is for people who don’t want to feel or don’t know how to.
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
You see, this is your problem. When you don’t have an expert command of adjectives, you don’t know how you feel.
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
A fish has only three seconds of memory, he said
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
occurred to me that he was indeed unable to see the physical world where I was. The leaves and the leaf-clearing rituals were abstract to him—he had not lived, since age three, in a place where leaves fell so profusely in one season. What else, which would have been merely new, became otherworldly to him?
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
Fear doesn’t speak reason or logic, I said.
Phobia is irrational, he said. You can be reasonable and logical in your fears
Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivahas quoted2 years ago
Where else can one turn to but nature if one needs endless details to sustain oneself, I thought. Nature is not small, I said.
You weren’t that interested in it.
Екатерина Привалихинаhas quoted5 years ago
So your brain is like a flypaper for words.
Екатерина Привалихинаhas quoted5 years ago
Orphan, widow, widower, I thought, but what do you call a parent who’s lost a child, a sibling who’s lost a sibling, a friend who’s lost a friend?