Nick Flynn Quotes

The Boat Has Become Supreme Isolation, Chosen Isolation, Holding Myself Apart From The World, Which I Only Dimly Understand Anyway. I Can Sit On The Aft Deck And Never Be Surprised By Anything Again- No Phone Will Ever Ring, No One Will Knock That I Haven't Seen Coming For A Quarter Mile. That I Can Go To Sleep Any Night And Wake Up Having Broken Loose- A Failed Knot, A Line Frayed, The Anchor Dragged- That I Can Drift Out Of Sight Of Land Makes A Twisted Sense, In Line With My Internal Weather. When Everything Has Proven Tenuous One Can Either Move Toward Permanence Or Toward Impermanence. The Boat's Sublimely Impermanent. Some Mornings The Fog's So Thick That I Exist Only In A Tight Globe Of Clearing, Beyond Which Is All Foghorn And Unknown.

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