21 Quotes by Ania Ahlborn

We don't have hardly anything""We gotta make do with what the land gives us

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead. People feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand, looking out the window, sound and well in some new disguise. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In some ways, writing books is like giving yourself eternal life, isn’t it?

Yet another day had faded to a bruised purple.

It was you, it was me, it was us, it was we.

Strutting into the wrong church with your nose in the air could get you crucified.

Nubs?” the doctor asked. “It’s okay,” Charlie said. “He’s our dog. He isn’t a person or anything.” “I would hope not.” “Sometimes he eats his own poop,” Charlie explained.

That kind of loss came with a lot of guilt, and guilt made people defensive.

To wonder meant to want, if only in some small way.