I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
SCHUYLERYes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
More Schuyler Quotes
-
-
The world will be loud again. I’ll notice the loneliness less.
SCHUYLER -
I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
SCHUYLER -
How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
SCHUYLER -
Yes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
SCHUYLER -
Some mornings, I like to live like a secret; wake as quietly as I can, slip out of bed without so much as a wrinkle.
SCHUYLER -
We’re in spring and I have learned how to be gentle and sharp; strong bark on budding trees. Hold out your hands. I’ll leave a pink kiss and a pocket knife.
SCHUYLER -
I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
SCHUYLER -
In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
SCHUYLER -
There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
SCHUYLER -
In a dream, my fingertips pulse. I’ll be patient in my blooming. In a dream, I let time pass through open hands.
SCHUYLER -
I allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
SCHUYLER -
I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
SCHUYLER -
I descend into an unopened sky, the ocean floor, the final embrace of a graveyard. Find your fill of me before my blue pales like a sour moon.
SCHUYLER -
For now, I’ll bring what I can to my own four walls. I recognize the purpose, the promise of this: a church is made by its space, by its practices.
SCHUYLER -
I’m writing about moving again, and when I write about moving, I really mean beginning. I’m beginning again.
SCHUYLER