30 Quotes by Joseph McElroy

You find yourself in other people.

Do you ever feel,′ she wonders, ’that we fit into a large life that doesn’t know us but – hold us? And that this is better than its being more aware of us?

For hear us falling. Toward the horizon albeit oblique, for we imagine it isn’t our natural state. We are some power to be here and to have changed toward life even to think distinct from these angels lately to be heard speculating in us as if they were learning to hope. We deserve to know what is in us.

If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it.

Did some deaths go on hurting? were there winds below the sea that blew as fast as all other winds but blew through you as you turned end over end slowly enough so if the ledges and cracks down there wanted to move over to make room for you, you’d get in there and go so deep you’d never stop falling.

And Me too, she heard all around her, intimate not falling away or apart, heard it from other women awakening in the new workshop world...

Do we not use each other to slip across the frontiers of self-scrutiny as something other than lonely people?

There is no future. It’s sentiment about what might have been.

Sometimes she thought there would be peace on earth if we would just learn to breath. All alone we have to invent even that.