65 Quotes About Sara-baume
"This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins."
"I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other people's attempts to enforce structure on my days."
"I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable."
"Only the lighted houses remaining, the lemon blush of their inhabited windows."
"I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not."
"My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other; to keep the despair only as great as on all the others."
"I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me."
"I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me."