GLIMPSES

A few impressions and quotes from This Is All He Asks of You:

‘Everything would become completely shiny and clear, empty and full and beautiful, and all the things I looked at were gleaming.’

‘Slowly, I will forget that warmth and sun and spring are possible. Every year, I forget.’

‘How long did it take before the lights became little black stick bodies at the bottom of the glass?’

‘…the song I found in the Oak’

‘I am scared that I have forgotten how to look at the sea’

‘as if we were food for the buildings, making them grow taller and shinier…’

‘If I just focused on the taste of the drink, and on the pie, and on the neighbor across from me, then everything was simple.’

‘If you stand still, the trees will find you, and they will know you.’

‘The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while adults know it only with their heads.’

‘we were there, with the refugees, arms and legs and feet and hands and heads and eyes. Hoping that a boat would come along.’

‘everything in the world has a voice and speaks. Not just what is supposed to speak, but other things too, like the gate, the walls of the houses, the shade of trees, the sand and the silence.’

‘darkness, for him, was still light…. nothing in the world, not even what he saw inside himself with closed eyelids, was outside this great miracle of light.’

‘He says he has no story, except the most important of all, the story of life.’