Helen Macdonald Quotes

I Couldn't Keep The Dimensions Of My Car In My Head. Or My Own, For I Kept Having Accidents. I Cracked Cups. I Dropped Plates. Fell Over. Broke A Toe On A Door-jamb. I Was As Clumsy As I Had Been As A Child. But When I Was Busy With Mabel I Was Never Clumsy. The World With The Hawk In It Was Insulated From Harm, And In That World I Was Exactly Aware Of All The Edges Of My Skin. Every Night I Slept And Dreamed Of Creances, Of Lines And Knots, Of Skeins Of Wool, Skeins Of Geese Flying South. And Every Afternoon I Walked Out Onto The Pitch With Relief, Because When The Hawk Was On My First I Knew Who I Was, And I Was Never Angry With Her, Even If I Wanted To Sink To My Knees And Weep Every Time She Tried To Fly Away.

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