28 Quotes by Anne Gisleson

I kept wanting to apologize to our tiny son about the state of the city.

The power of female vanity should never be underestimated.

The letter suddenly seemed like my most important possession, and like all the real, handwritten, postally delivered letters these days, an instant relic from a previous era, before time and space collapsed and we started sending messages to each other's pockets.

It's easier to be someone else than to be yourself.

As you get older all the bodies of your stillborn selves may pile up around you, but every decision is also its own act of creation.

Besides, "existence" becomes less philosophical and more immediate in the face of natural disaster, as does "meaning." Disasters and evacuations are actually excellent exercises in life evaluation.

Our failure of the one test God put before us, that of not enslaving other humans.

I'm usually grateful for how good conversation stirs up my head, in ways that solitary thinking or reading alone cannot.

He loved Christmas... a sanctioned time to indulge his love of excess and family, his outsizes generosity.