Kathleen Collins Quotes & Sayings

We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us. — Kathleen Collins

It was only sunlight she needed. Pure, delicious sunlight flooding through a room.) — Kathleen Collins

any life dissected too closely was boring and could only make you fall asleep. — Kathleen Collins

They will pass the winter in this desultory fashion. The — Kathleen Collins

Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen — Kathleen Collins

...later she would laugh when she discovered that meaninglessness came from the dark shaft of gloom that surrounded her day and night, and that ecstasy was just a sunny room away. — Kathleen Collins

He rode home with her to New Jersey and she took him into the backyard to look at her father's roses . . . to look at her childhood, to look at what pricked and stung and was difficult to forgive. He looked at the house and the yard and her family . . . And it seemed to her that everything changed. Was forgiven. The — Kathleen Collins

She could feel her skin turning darker while he lay there and stared at her; her hair felt not only short but unbelievably bushy. — Kathleen Collins

He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known. — Kathleen Collins

Life has so many tuneless days... what better posture to take than to become a whimsical motherfucker? — Kathleen Collins

...Juliana. Should you cease to exist, so would I. — Kathleen Collins