David Vann, Aquarium Quotes
As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.
A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?
Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.
The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.
This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.