She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Anthony MarraPerhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
Anthony MarraLife: a constellation of vital phenomenaโorganization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
Anthony MarraThere was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.
Anthony Marra