Sarah Manguso

Quotes

• “I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even d...”
• “To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable...”
• “Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tom...”
• “I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a fe...”
• “Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a...”