Tor Udall Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Tor Udall
She can't believe she is going to compose her first love letter. She can hardly bear the exposure as if her body is a photographic film spooling into sunlight and everything is too bright, too vulnerable, the moments in the film now lost for ever. — Tor Udall
Chloe takes a mental snapshot, as if one day she will paint him. It will be a day's work getting to know his body. — Tor Udall
Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch. — Tor Udall
She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love. — Tor Udall
A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies. — Tor Udall
The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect. — Tor Udall
They talked in the supermarket, the butcher's and the post office of how they had watched a child collecting twigs, or was it flowers...? How they had noticed the sky, what a blue sky there was that day. Chloe remembers her walking through the trees, the branches growing bigger until she couldn't see her any more. A child had been lost and Kew would never be the same. — Tor Udall
It is a movement and a rest, you and I. — Tor Udall
It doesn't matter where she looks, there are always the beautiful imperfections of a marriage. — Tor Udall
I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil. — Tor Udall
He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful. — Tor Udall
Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in. — Tor Udall
Among the dog leads, phones and hats, there would be babies hoped for and lost. All this would be remembered: missed opportunities, mislaid friends, the smile of a wife. It would be a place for lost things. — Tor Udall
Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square. — Tor Udall
Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels. — Tor Udall