People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?
Mary RuefleIt is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
Mary RueflePolar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird.
Mary Ruefle