28 Quotes by Marianne Wiggins

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there’s nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

...what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

It makes you wonder. How much you can know about a thing, a person. If you can know anything at all. Maybe no one’s who we think they are. No one. Makes you doubt yourself, wonder if you even know yourself or if you’ve been lyin, too, along with everybody else.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.