“Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.” PeopleUsedLyingBrokenWallConversationTiredBottlesSunlightMistakenJewelsCatchingEmbedded Book:Faces in the water Source: Faces in the water
“I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.” ThinkingUsedFallWalksDoorsMinutesPagesTinyTricksHolesCousinTriggersDictionaryBindingTrinityMy CousinTrinkets Author:Janet Frame
“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
