“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.” IfsKnowsLoveWellsLooksSometimesObjectsLandscapeSomeone You LoveFugitive Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.” IfsWantStarsBloodColdWarmScalesFeathersLungs Book:Skin Divers Source: Skin Divers
“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.” IfsWorldLooksSometimesMomentsAbilityDarknessGraceBeatsDressesDuesShouldersLook UpThat MomentSlipsCatastrophePierceStop Time Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
“Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.” IfsChildrenEnoughPastStrongAcceptingBloodUnderstoodStrong EnoughDrained Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
“No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.” IfsLoveLongBornArmsLuckyTerrorTailsBrushesSkullsUnluckyLucky You Book:Fugitive Pieces Source: Fugitive Pieces
