28 Quotes by Marianne Wiggins

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

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.

I don’t remember being a child, and that’s why I think I’m so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one’s own.

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.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends – and I always pass along a book I’ve loved.

I’m fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I’m a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I’m writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I write on a visual canvas, ‘seeing’ a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I’m a visual junkie.