Peter Rock "My abandonment"

If a paragraph is a thought, a complete thought, then a sentence is one piece of a thought. Like in addition when one number plus another number equals a bigger number. If you wrote down subtraction you would start with a thought and take enough away that it was no longer complete. You might write backward, or nothing at all, or less than nothing. You wouldn't even think of breathe.

s. 7-8.

It is possible to collect things in your mind or to gather them and one way to do this is to write them.

s. 17.

Don't be afraid. Just because they don't understand us doesn't mean we've done anything wrong.

s. 48.

It's hard to be called a hypocrite by your daughter who you have taught everything. It's hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you.

s. 139.

Sometimes when you're sleeping someone presses on your chest or the flat on your back with their hand and when you wake up no one is there but you can tell in the dark air in the room that someone has been talking to you.

s. 93.

Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

s. 197.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful.

s. 199-200.

Appearances count. When they see us riding our bikes to church, when they hear us sing and we dress up on Sunday that makes them believe certain things about us. That we're like them, that we believe the same things.  That makes them happy, to see us doing what they're doing.

s. 107.

wyd. John Murray, London 2018.