16 Quotes by Heather Christle

Sometimes I am afraid that as I am listening to people’s stories of tears – and therefore, frequently, of suffering – I will make the mistake of these priests, that I will fail to hear what people most want to be known, that I will only make them cry again.

But it is dangerous to lay a map of one’s life over another’s, to make it a trap.

The floor is the only thing that can hold me. If I could go any lower I would.

I understand she is crying because she is witnessing a difficult and maybe sorrowful event. I understand I am not trying because I am the event.

If you are alone, comfort arms are still available; you hold yourself together.

But it is dangerous to always think one thing is another, every event a metaphor for another, each life and death a reiteration of the ones that came before.

The despair is not reasonable. It has no sense of proportion. It knows the material conditions of my life are not under threat, but it does not care.