62 Quotes by Jennifer Stone

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Love is all there's time for.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.