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1 " The voice of God. Audibly hearing his voice. Isn’t that what we seek when we pray?We ask for something and we think, wouldn’t it be nice if God just said, ‘Sure, I can get that for you,’ or ‘I’m make it happen right away.'But he doesn’t. That’s not how God works, and if I’m honest, sometimes that frustrates me. How about you? But wait. I didn’t say God didn’t have a voice. He does. The Bible says he does, and people all over the earth have heard his calling. But it’s not the kind of voice we expect from the King of Glory.It’s not a powerful voice or thunder. The Bible calls it a whisper, or a 'still small voice. "
― Yvette Walker
2 " I have the ghost of you pressing against my ribs like deep water. It is only now, in this cardigan of a house that I begin to miss you, and to grieve. "
― Yvette Walker , Letters to the End of Love
3 " The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When you strike the keys it’s a sound that hasn’t been heard in the qorld world for thirty years (we are so far away from a time when typewriters won world wars). When you strike the keys they make a sound like a pistol shot, a sound so definite and sure you feel like a genius, or an orayor orator, or a beat poet. When you strike the keys you just want to keep on fucking writing. You have to wrestle with the thing, like I am doing now, steer it like an old manual car, keep the words together and right and on the page, but the blood and muscle of a typewriter, it is a beautiful thing. "
4 " I trace the map of other people's lives like an English cartographer, but I am not Virginia Woolf; no one in my fiction would buy flowers in that way. "
5 " Viv sleeps, curled up on the sofa like Sherlock Holmes. A newspaper is barely in reach of her fingertips, a book is tucked under her feet like a pair of slippers. "
6 " (was it because the whole world went online – is that why we never wrote another word?). "
