17 Quotes by Claire Vaye Watkins

A promise unkept will take a man’s mind.

The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

I don’t know, maybe it’s easier to be lost than found. At least there’s energy in lostness. Something to be done.

There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell.

Now, I’ve made mistakes. I’ve lost people. But you’ve thrown them away. There is an important difference.

Luz’s father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this.