33 Quotes by Kay Ryan

It isn’t ever delicate to live.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.

It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.

Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.