Trisha G.:
has some sort of disease where you hallucinate & start to not believe in love, but after a year or two, or even sometimes ten or twenty, it cures itself
Trisha G.:
If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. & there is nothing more to it than that.
Trisha G.:
Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth.
Trisha G.:
My grandmother kept a box of old photos in her attic & we used to go up there on rainy days & sit on the floor in the dusty light & go through them & she would tell about witches & broken hearts & how we came from royal blood
Trisha G.:
The day he first told me he was starting to disappear I didn't believe him & so he stopped & held his hand up to the sun & it was like thin paper in the light & finally I said you seem very calm for a man who is disappearing
Trisha G.:
this is a window into the stuff that goes on behind what we think about it & even if we were all to disappear tomorrow it would go on without even noticing except to comment now & then that it was quieter today than usual.
Trisha G.:
If I love you with all my heart, I said, what will you give me? & then I stopped & said he didn't have to answer that because I was going to do it anyway.
Trisha G.:
One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off
Trisha G.:
It's much easier, he told me, if you like the parts you like & you like the parts you don't like. Is that some Eastern thing? I said & he said not really since he was from Idaho & it worked there just fine.
Trisha G.:
Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing,
Trisha G.:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in my dreams & even from such small things, I knew I could not wait to love you forever.
Trisha G.:
I try & walk a line between terror & ecstasy, she said & then she shook her head. You'd be amazed at the people who avoid me for no good reason, other than that.
Trisha G.:
She kept asking if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand & I wanted a place to fly.
Trisha G.:
she is the center of the universe at this moment unless you're looking in another direction, or are thinking about something from a long time ago, in which case she will wait quietly right here until you return.
Trisha G.:
Most of the stuff I say is true because I saw it in a dream & I don't have the presence of mind to make up lies when I'm asleep.
Trisha G.:
These are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong, she said. Sometimes it takes till you're 40 to see it though.
Trisha G.:
There's nothing wrong with helping people all the time, she told me, as long as you throw regular orgasms in there to help you keep perspective.
Trisha G.:
She turned to me & whispered, don't you just love it when you get so excited you forget to breathe? & the thought of her smiling eyes still makes me laugh.
Trisha G.:
After her father died she carried her life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
Trisha G.:
Today all I could remember was the way your body held the ocean of my self & for a moment there was only one us in all creation.
Trisha G.:
When we visited my grandma in the summer, we'd sit on the porch & watch the moon every night to be sure it made it safely home.
Trisha G.:
I used to hear voices a lot, but then I read up on it & found out they don't exist, so now I don't listen to a word they say.
Trisha G.:
My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple minded. It's taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant.
Trisha G.:
She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.
Trisha G.:
I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept.
