Jennifer Haigh, Faith
3 quotes
Quotes by Jennifer Haigh, Faith
"I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . ."
"The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer."
"But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head."