Vaguely Mad

“When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Always more to learn, that's the pain and the pleasure”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the day as the time we really live, the only time that matters, because the stuff we do by day somehow makes us who we are. We feel the same way about the present. We say, let bygones be bygones... Water under the bridge. But there is no day without night, no wakefulness without sleep, no present without past. They are constantly somersaulting over each other.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“When it comes to life we spin our own yard and where we end up is really where we intended to be.”
― Julia Glass

“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“Our neighbors had always thought us vaguely mad to swim in the pond—someone had seen a snapping turtle more than once—but Poppy and I scoffed at their timidity.”
― Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale