Eliza Boo:
mermaids would sometimes sing to sailors and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or cause shipwrecks.
Eliza Boo:
what if in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? and what if, when you woke, you had the flower in your hand?
Eliza Boo:
sometimes you just want to gaze on things awhile, to keep them fresh and perfect as long as you can.
Eliza Boo:
because i know that time is always time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, i rejoice that things are as they are...
Eliza Boo:
There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink
Eliza Boo:
I can read minds, she said & I said, OK & she said, Do you want to know what you're thinking? I said no thank you. I don't do stuff like that on weekends.
Eliza Boo:
There are moments when I'm completely at peace, but it's usually before my children wake up & they'll have none of that.
Eliza Boo:
You don't have to be a bundle of contradictions to be a woman, she said. But we all agreed it helps
Eliza Boo:
It's hardest to love the ordinary things, she said, but you get lots of opportunities to practice.
