“But what hasn’t been damaged? History here means a history of storms rushing the trees for so long, their bowed shapes seem a kind of star - worth trusting, I mean, as in how the helmsman, steering home, knows what star to lean on.” - SWIMMING

“Don’t you see how you’ve burnt almost all of it, all the tenderness, away, someone screams to someone else, in public - and looking elsewhere, we walk quickly past, as if even to have heard that much might have put us at risk of whatever fate questions like that spring from.” - MONOMOY

“Two points make a line - but so does one point, surely, when pulled at once in two opposed directions: how to turn away from what’s familiar, for example, toward what isn’t defines hope well enough, but can define, too, despair...” - THAT IT MIGHT SAVE, OR DROWN THEM ( )