Quotes by : Sarah Manguso

I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed....

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich,....

My students still don't know what they will never be. Their hope is so bright I can almost see it.I used....

In my experience nursing is waiting. The mother becomes the background against which the baby lives,....

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You....

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if....

I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could....