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“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”

Annie Dillard

“Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“We live in all we seek.”

Annie Dillard

Source: For the Time Being

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”

Annie Dillard

Source: The Writing Life

“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.”

Annie Dillard

“It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”

Annie Dillard

Source: Holy the Firm (1977)

“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”

Annie Dillard

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”

Annie Dillard

Source: The Writing Life

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

Annie Dillard

“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.”

Annie Dillard

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”

Annie Dillard

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part.”

Annie Dillard

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters