Claire | November 3, 2011
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” -Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: [...]
Claire | October 4, 2011
“We live in a tired world—a tired world—a world that has gone on piling up speculation and observations until truths that might been graspable in the bright Dayspring of human morning—by the young Plotinus or the ecstatic John on Patmos—are obscured by palimpsest on palimpsest…. [T]he lovely lines of faith that sprung up in aspiring [...]
Claire | September 30, 2011
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.” -Arthur Christopher Benson
Claire | June 29, 2011
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Claire | June 11, 2011
“You know you’ve been out of the South too long when you’re cruising in the lazy-making sunshine down a road so flat the land seems to have stretched itself out for a nap, somewhere between Faulkner’s home and Elvis’s grave, and still you can’t help but creep up on the slowpoke ahead until you’re close [...]
Claire | April 27, 2011
“It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.” -Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance (1994)
Claire | February 7, 2011
“There was a bakery in Raheny guarded by two women. It had the best smell of any shop. It wasn’t bread; it wasn’t a rushing smell, like steam surrounding you. It was quieter, part of the air, not warm and smothering and upsetting. The smell made me feel good. The cakes were on shelves inside [...]
Claire | January 31, 2011
Perhaps this trauma of separation-beginning from our very birth-is the normal sequence of things and to detach oneself, to learn to move freely about the world without longings or inventions, takes years of patient learning; and even then we may turn one day and find the years hollowing a dark canyon beneath us. -Loving Che, [...]
Claire | January 21, 2011
Falling in love with Zadie Smith: “It’s about time someone told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as once was supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots…[and] before Clara was beautiful she was ugly” – White [...]
Claire | December 20, 2010
“None of them could help her. She had lost all of them. They would not find out about this; she would not put it in a letter. And because of this she understood that they would never know her now. Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, [...]
