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Dreams of Speaking QUOTES

Dreams of Speaking QUOTES

1 " Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold. "

― Gail Jones , Dreams of Speaking

2 " Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. "

― Gail Jones , Dreams of Speaking

3 " In photographs taken from the sky, cities resembled circuit boards. It was no surprise, really, that there were sparky misfirings, dangerous connections. Even traffic, Alice concluded, set up a kind of static in the air, let loose vibrations and uncontainable agitation. Freighted with more than they could absorb, with city intentions, citizens moved in designs of inexplicable purpose. "

― Gail Jones , Dreams of Speaking

4 " Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world. "

― Gail Jones , Dreams of Speaking