Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
Annie DillardI had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
Annie DillardIt's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself -- and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.
Annie Dillard