“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.” WorldHumansLittlesLightFacesChallengesHuman BeingsPoorMorningSunAuthorityLateShotsResponsibleSlaveTerritoryWakingWoundedDaylight Book:Daughter buffalo Source: Daughter buffalo
“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.” PeopleWorldSometimesHelpingDreamRealityLightFacesMovingNightTurnsBeliefWaterMemoriesWhiteForgetResponsibilityListeningCircumstancesWalkingCalmTricksStreamsNeighborhoodGlimpseHostileLimbsUrgentAvoidedOur MemoriesUneasiness Book:Faces in the water Source: Faces in the water
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.” PeopleKnowsSometimesFacesUsedFearWaterSilenceClearReflectionShadowDepthCastsObstaclesStaringStreamsDreadObscureTransparentClear Water Book:Scented gardens for the blind: a novel Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.” PeopleMeanMadeHandsFacesOrderNamesWaitingRealizingMorningCrimeGoes OnRoundsListsFixedShockTreatmentNurseDreadEvery MorningPsychiatryWeepingFashionablePolished Book:Faces in the water Source: Faces in the water
