J.M. Ledgard Quotes & Sayings

the strangest life exists in the cracks — J.M. Ledgard

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff. — J.M. Ledgard

Disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain — J.M. Ledgard

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it's really finished as a force for grappling with the world. — J.M. Ledgard

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity. — J.M. Ledgard

Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment — J.M. Ledgard

Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics. — J.M. Ledgard

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose. — J.M. Ledgard

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. — J.M. Ledgard

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps. — J.M. Ledgard