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I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do, and adults don‘t do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.
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I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do, and adults don‘t do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.
"I had been agitating for a pet for some time. In my head I had a white rabbit called Ezra who bit people who ignored me. Ezra's pelt was as white as the soul in heaven but his heart was black..."
-"Psalms"
"Don't you know that the riotous pattern of cloth favored by coach [bus] firms for their seats is a direct response to the gut loads of vomit retched over them? Why else the mucky swirls picked out in carrot-orange? Why else the base-mix of brown and green?"
-"Adventure of a Lifetime"
"Arum lilies grow here, trumpets blaring light, gunpowder stamens and a flint stalk. The lilies of the field neither toil nor spin but from time to time they explode, strewing the ground with a shrapnel of petals; force, fuse, flower."
-"Turn of the World"
"Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions."
-"Lives of Saints"
The line that strikes me most - "And sometimes I want to ride out the storm for no better reason than I need the storm." Because #life is for living.
#jeanettewinterson
