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“The sound of a pen scratching in the night is a holy sound.” (A Feather on the Breath of God Quotes)
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
“A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?”
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
“The wish to please, to charm the desire to provoke desire runs deep in me and seems to have been there from the beginning.”
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
“My mother sobbed. “I’m not asking for that much.” But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.”
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
“She swiftly disabused us of certain notions acquired at school. America is the land of equal opportunity. All men are brothers. The best things in life are free.”
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
“I had discovered the miraculous possibility that art holds out to us: to be a part of the world and to be removed from the world at the same time.”
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God
