16 Quotes by Jane Urquhart

What do you do with everything that is cut away?" she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn’t completely used up your body.

What do you do with everything that is cut away?” she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...

They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment.

I don’t know what I mean, but I know I believe it.