Tor Udall Quotes

#1. It is a movement and a rest, you and I.

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#2. She can't believe she is going to compose her first love letter. She can hardly bear the exposure as if her body is a photographic film spooling into sunlight and everything is too bright, too vulnerable, the moments in the film now lost for ever.

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#3. Chloe takes a mental snapshot, as if one day she will paint him. It will be a day's work getting to know his body.

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#4. The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.

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#5. Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.

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#6. It doesn't matter where she looks, there are always the beautiful imperfections of a marriage.

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#7. Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch.

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#8. A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.

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#9. She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love.

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#10. Among the dog leads, phones and hats, there would be babies hoped for and lost. All this would be remembered: missed opportunities, mislaid friends, the smile of a wife. It would be a place for lost things.

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#11. He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful.

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#12. I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil.

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#13. Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.

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#14. Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels.

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