Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Ali Smith
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  1. I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now,...

  2. It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

  3. Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so...

  4. Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.

  5. It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's sardonic, a moment later it's generous again.

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