6 Quotes by Mary Ellen Hannibal


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    Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

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    The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

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    In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure; gulls would peck at them but the sea stars simply grew replacement limbs.

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    I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That’s a writer. Always observing.

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    Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don’t. I thought, it’s the light, it’s the water, it’s changing every second, it’s always doing this whether I’m here to witness it or not.

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