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61 " I don't want to say hello, nor do I want him to know that I've seen him and failed to say hello. "
― Sara Baume , A Line Made by Walking
62 " My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other; to keep the despair only as great as on all the others. "
63 " I think: I can read into anything. I think: I can read into nothing at all. "
64 " My phone doesn't ring and the doorbell doesn't either and I begin to wonder whether I am still alive. "
65 " Whether or not I want to see him, I do not want him to see me. "
66 " I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately, just to coax myself through each day. "
67 " What is it about crying? As if my body believes that squeezing all its salt out might somehow quell the sadness. As if sadness is a parasite which suckles on sodium chloride. "
68 " This is what the best of art does: uncovers an unrecoverable view of the world. "
69 " We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks we shared, Ben and I often ended up talking, and time and time again, he would say things that resonated so powerfully with my uneasiness about life, and back there and then, I believed it was an uneasiness unique to us, and that we were somehow bound by it. "
70 " But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's just my father and me—the tyrannical gene I inherited from him. "
71 " The worse things get, the more onerous they are to put right again. But this applies to every aspect of life. "
72 " It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry. "
73 " The world is wrong. It took me twenty-five years to realise and now I don't think I can bear it any more. The world is wrong, and I am too small to fix it, too self-absorbed. "