3 Quotes by Ann Quin

But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment toanything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence;the ego only there to give significance

Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the scaffolding of comparisons. Yet they still hunt with their pale perplexities and resentful airs.

The leaves were sun-baked lizards, stirring towards the sea that churned its chain of silver snakes, which would, if given half the chance, coil round, pull him out of this urban setting, vomit him on dry land.