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Do you want to change lives? Do you really want to change the world? Then read. Read as much as you can, as widely as you can and don't forget to read what you like. Most of all read what you love. There is power in that. -- Abigail George
They parade for us
In zoos - in portraits
Of every generation. -- Abigail George
I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. -- Abigail George
The light a sun. When I was a child, I thought that sleep came with darkness. When I grew older, I took long naps in the glare of the afternoon sunlight. The darkness was my enemy. Daylight was a triumph. -- Abigail George
What it takes to build muscle in a mysterious, intriguing world. You weave the awful, the terrible things that happened to you as a child into a story. -- Abigail George
We only live in a perfect world when we find ourselves challenging ourselves when it comes to listening to other people's opinions and accepting it, understanding it as limited thinking. A kind of flawed thinking. -- Abigail George
If I trace its breaking point I come across the eternity of the primitive impulse. The sea river is a cold impasse. Will I find secrets there? In my dream I am standing on a frozen lake, the second sex and I can hear female voices all around me. -- Abigail George
I am home for good like a tiny shoot. The tiny shoots in my mother's garden. I have a passion for idle chatter about books, language and literature. Preparing a meal together, that can be romantic. -- Abigail George
Happiness is greatest when shared with a sibling or a child. -- Abigail George
At the end of the day, whether we find ourselves in the autumn of our years or not, we will all become infirm in the end but we should never let it limit our thinking. -- Abigail George
I don't drive to places where I want to go. My mother takes me or my brother. -- Abigail George
Whenever I feel lonely I remembered those days. My mother walking ahead of me, barefoot, her hair blowing in the wind, across her mouth, a pair of her soft shoes in her hand, yet she still looked beautiful and elegant to me. Her glasses perched on the end of her nose. -- Abigail George
God simply faded into the background like our toys, into the distant past. And the memories of Sunday roasts with pudding and custard. -- Abigail George
People break all the time, no lie there and when that wretched break happens something is usually lost, left behind confused or some is hurt, a member of the family, a child, pure and innocent of the cruel world, dangerous adult men and women. -- Abigail George
I have a man, she said. And my man tall and good-looking. What have you? Nothing that I can see. -- Abigail George
You will not always be happy but I guarantee it that you will always be lucky as an artist when you least expect it. -- Abigail George
Fresh from memory
Caught in poverty
There is a web that lies beneath it all. -- Abigail George
I write about him to make the ghost stories go away. Everything that haunts me. -- Abigail George
We can be blind to our own faults. Our own flaws. They call it being human. The universe or whatever you want to call it. I call it human nature. The origins of smoke and mirrors. -- Abigail George
Like the wide hollows of eyes marked in cathedrals of stone that left me half-perplexed as a child. A self-portrait of an innocent in this organic of ephemeral societies. Then I know I will be able to flourish viciously. That's the trouble with remembering. You begin to wish. -- Abigail George
Pain is like a storm. Falling in love is like a storm. Obesity is like a storm. One day it is there and the next day it is still there. -- Abigail George
At the end of the sky I am a swimmer. In the water I can become a child again, splashing, sighing, holding my breath until enough is enough, I come up choking, my lungs needful of a fresh supply of air. -- Abigail George
I am hurting. The tears don't come anymore. They don't have the guts to anymore. I know that if I fail at that, it will mean the death of me. -- Abigail George
I'm free in Jesus mighty name. I'm free. He casts out every sadness. Every burden. Every wounded transgression. He washes away my sins. -- Abigail George
To me she was beautiful, this artist's model, this film extra, a woman who had been married three times. I think she would understand my chronic illness, my fatigue, and me. I think we would be best friends or pen pals. -- Abigail George
Nice people sometimes finish last but they are always the winners who take it all in the end. -- Abigail George
Do all romantic notions and inclinations wither, sag and die as you grew older into the body of a woman who begins to resemble your mother's and then your grandmother's? -- Abigail George
I sprayed scent like a saga a little too anxiously, left the porridge burnt at the bottom of the pot that morning: oats. Now I am swimming for my life while my sister in another city reaches for her umbrella next to her front door. I can smell the rosemary chicken but I don't want any feasts. -- Abigail George
I want to talk about how I survived. It is not a long story. It is only a few pages long. It started with the word 'winter'. -- Abigail George
The logic of damage. There is often no explanation for it. -- Abigail George
I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord -- Abigail George
Always remember. It takes one person to start a movement. -- Abigail George
Autumn leaves snap and crackle
Seasons carry gravity,
Burdens, dreams,
Seeing and things. -- Abigail George
Lost in a world of
reaching.
My heart is formidable
I am still breathing. -- Abigail George
Where is my language? You're a kind soul and deserve everything of the best for all of your future tomorrows. -- Abigail George
I write in code. -- Abigail George
This body did not live for me. -- Abigail George
Tin-Tin in your rattle skin
Dumbed and worn down -
Flushed pink-salmon suffering. -- Abigail George
If I were an alcoholic, a raging alcoholic, I would drink all my sorrows away. Sadness to me reminds me of Hemingway driving ambulances in the war. No way out. Sadness reminds me of Monroe. No way out. -- Abigail George
Are you in need of company?
Little by little -
Wind carries leaves. -- Abigail George
I am too good at making you see what you want to see. It has been hard my whole life to make that picture seem so perfect. The perfect daughter in the perfect family who was after all not so perfect. There was again only the illusion of what outsiders wanted to see. -- Abigail George
I imagined him standing there looking at my shadow or over my shoulder and could only promise my soul this. That he was with someone more suitable now. -- Abigail George
In this rural wasteland I feel I am not myself. -- Abigail George
I would dream of birds and flora, beasts and cave dwellers. Every childhood night was a broken night. My sister escaped. For a while, my brother did too (extraordinarily). -- Abigail George
Gulls fly overhead
While waves slap against rocks
From dusk till dawn. -- Abigail George
To be a mother is some kind of amazing. Something really amazing -- Abigail George
Having a sibling means you always have a best friend for life. -- Abigail George
I give my life as a sacrifice. -- Abigail George
I never touched drink. It uproots you. Plants you some place you will never remember the morning after. -- Abigail George
Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way. -- Abigail George
In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman. -- Abigail George
Children are never mistakes. They might not all have been conceived in life but they are never mistakes. -- Abigail George
That whole family is incestuous and all of them mean to keep me out of their circle. -- Abigail George
There is humanity in all of us and not just the illusion of it. -- Abigail George
Bridges burned and pages turned with every tear that fell from my eyes. -- Abigail George
For years you've been laying a table for one. -- Abigail George