“Hope,Lizzie saysmy name overandoverandoveragain.Hope!And, oh,I stand there.Oh, my heart.I stand there,still.”
“It’s the way he saysmy name: like music.”
“I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.”
“Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it’s just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.”
“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
“i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tiresi’m torn between the compulsion to run& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass”