Time Is a Mother Quotes
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“How come the past tense is always longer?”
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“How come the past tense is always longer?”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part”
― Time Is a Mother
The page so it points to the good part”
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“I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard.”
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― Time Is a Mother
“What we’ll always have is something we lost”
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― Time Is a Mother
“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”
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― Time Is a Mother
“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.
How you say what you mean changes what you say.
Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”
― Time Is a Mother
“What if it wasn’t the crash that made us, but the debris?”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Because this body is my last address.”
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― Time is a Mother
“They say the earth spins and that’s why we fall but everyone knows it’s the music.”
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― Time Is a Mother
“How can we know, with a house full of bread, that it’s hunger, not people, that survives?”
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― Time Is a Mother
“none of us are children long enough to love it”
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― Time is a Mother
“i could not speak so i wrote myself into silence”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Because what I did with my one short beautiful life— was lose it on a winning streak.”
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― Time is a Mother
“Because my uncle never killed himself—but simply died, on purpose.”
― Time is a Mother
― Time is a Mother
“a loaf of rye is rising out of itself, growing lighter as it takes up more of the world. In humans, we call this Aging. In bread, we call it Proof.”
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― Time Is a Mother
“If words, as they claimed, had no weight
in our world, why did we keep
sinking, Doctor—I mean
Lord—why did the water swallow
our almost human hands
as we sang?”
― Time Is a Mother
in our world, why did we keep
sinking, Doctor—I mean
Lord—why did the water swallow
our almost human hands
as we sang?”
― Time Is a Mother
“You can walk away. You can be nothing & still breathing. Believe me.”
― Time is a Mother
― Time is a Mother
“Oh no. The sadness is intensifying. How rude.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Because the fairy tales were right. You’ll need sorcery to make it out of here.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I’m trying to be real but it costs too much.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.”
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― Time is a Mother
“nobody's free without breaking open”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother