J.M. Ledgard Quotes

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.