“A week later López Azcárate hanged himself from a tree and the news ran through the university like a terrified, fleet-footed animal.
-Roberto Bolaño
The Simile Museum
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August 20, 2015
“Darkness fills her like a carbohydrate.”
-Daniela Gioseffi
August 17, 2015
“My kids would have to dive in, live through the agony, and come out the other side. They’d have to learn to lie on the lawn watching ants scale the grass blades; they’d have to linger, digits pruning, in the bathtub; they’d have to stop, to be still, and then to wait, and wait, and wait, allowing time to fatten around them, like a dewdrop on the tip of a leaf. And then, only then, who know what they might imagine or invent?”
– Claire Messud
August 10, 2015
“Better to stand by the grave and try to remember some photo of him sitting on a bench in Brooklyn, or bring to mind one of those recordings of his voice, at once powerful but broken, like that of someone who has passed many hours in solitude and acquired conviction though constant doubt.”
-Valeria Luiselli
July 30, 2015
“Between drivers and employers there are still sliding glass panels. There are still fold-down seats. A car is still as big as a bedroom.”
– Marguerite Duras
July 26, 2015
“Corinne’s silence was like a mirror, flashing his tiny, harmless lie back to him in huge magnification, all covered with sticky hairs and microbes.”
– Deborah Eisenberg
July 17, 2015
“…someone somewhere
heard the gossip of exotic birds
and passed it on in the night
to another, sleeping curled like an ear…”
– Mary Ruefle
July 9, 2015
“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that’s eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.”
– Rebecca Solnit
July 2, 2015
“Feelin’ as hard as Vince Carter’s knee cartilage is.”
-Earl Sweatshirt
June 28, 2015
“Life is so fragile. It trembles like the aspens.”
-Derek Walcott
The Simile Museum 