“...O deaf and mute and blind and beautiful and interminable rose who into time, attar and verse transmute”
“Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.”
“The past screams louder than the future. The future is mute, but it’s not deaf.”
“She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli.”
“Love is blind but not deaf.”
“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”