81 Quotes by Laura Kasischke

The self on tiptoes sneaking away from the self.

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

And thislast second or two of dreamingin which your facereturns to me completely. Noteven needing to be, beingso alive again to me.

and a tablein a kitchenat whichthe nightingales feasted on fairy tales,the angels stuffed themselves with fog

The wind has toppled the telescopeover onto the lawn:So much for stars.Your brief shot at the universe, gone.

The physical universe and its buzzing machinery, its fantastical scenery.

Believable, chronological, but so quickly erased that it only serves to prove that the universe is made of curving, warping space.

Maybe I stepped into the skin my mother left behind, and became the girl my mother had been, the one she still wanted to be. Maybe I was wearing her youth now like an airy scarf, an accessory, all bright nerves and sticky pearls, and maybe that's why she spent so much time staring at me with that wistful look in her eyes. I was wearing something of hers, something she wanted back. It was written all over her face.

I fell in love with the boy next door, and my own flesh became a thing I'd never really worn before. Sometimes, pressing my palms together, I thought I felt a magnetic field between them- something invisible but shaped, like sound, or heat, an egg of light, and it was thought I could hold the life force itself in my hands.