“I asked him the dumbest questions I could think of.”
Nervana Blesselhas quoted2 years ago
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical
Nervana Blesselhas quoted2 years ago
Mother called it “the art of shutting up.”
Nervana Blesselhas quoted2 years ago
They were far away. Dwarfed by the mountain, hushed by the wind
Nervana Blesselhas quoted2 years ago
Ain’t nothin’ funnier than real life, I tell you what
b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.
b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical
b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal.
b8001871515has quotedlast year
am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we don’t go to school.
b8001871515has quotedlast year
Dad worries that the Government will force us to go but it can’t, because it doesn’t know about us. Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates.