Annie Dillard Quotes - Page 3

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.