"I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,"

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Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The city in which I love you: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

Li-Young Lee

#White Quotes #Listening Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”
“I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.”

Source : "Amber Frey talks of trial, book and life after Peterson". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2005.
“Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.”
“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”
“It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann
“Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.”
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.165, Univ of California Press
“America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.”

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