Barney Norris Quotes
Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.
That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
