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“We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this.”

Reason Moments Passion Emotion

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“All the while, I keep one ye on Eibhlín Dubh and one on my daughter in her car seat. She grows in that rear-view mirror. Soon, her eyes are open as I turn towards home. Soon, her gurgles can almost be translated into words. Soon, she is tugging at the straps in which I have bound her. Soon, she is smiling back at me. This is how years pass in that mirror: soon, too soon.”

Children Time Growing Lies Motherhood

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“..so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood.”

Growing Up Childhood Personality Habits Behaviors Formative Years

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“I don’t know what it’s all for, but I keep going anyway, in the misguided hope that if I can simply exhaust my obsession it might come to bore me, eventually. It’s a foolish approach that only makes things worse, because the more I read, the sharper my rage grows.”

Research Obsession

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“Perhaps the compulsion to lay a woman’s life before me and slowly explore each layer started in the dissection room; so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood.”

Love Life Women Existence Childhood Poet Poem Patterns Obsession Lament

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them.”

Writing Autonomy Beginnings

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“Never in this quest have I found a simple answer; every lead is always a prelude to more questions.”

Life Answers Knowledge Quests Questions

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“All our omens hold the mystery of some grave human consequence, now forgotten, leaving only the gleaming symbol in its aftermath. In attempting to comprehend a turn of ill-fortune, we may search for an omen as prelude, for to find such a sign imposes meaning on the chaotic. In seeking an omen, we frequently seek a bird.”

Reason Chaos Symbols Control Birds Sense Signs Omens Ill Fortune

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

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“A convex seer, this rear-view mirror lets me peer into the landscape unwinding behind me, but it cannot show what is ahead, nor how I should turn next.”

Mirrors The Past Hindsight Rear View

Book:A Ghost in the Throat

Source: A Ghost in the Throat