Wednesday, September 28, 2011

the only song that has ever made you sad


Do not ask me for haunted. Do not ever ask me for haunted, because I will give you haunted and you will never be the same. I will turn a nursery rhyme room into a prison of rhythmic sighs. Of mice screaming and clocks that will not stop their tick-tock, tick-tock. The closed eyes of dolls and animals will not open here, not even if you try to pry them awake with gentle, pleading fingers. I will make the record skip; the arm won’t lift from the only song that has ever made you sad.
- from Breathing Water by T. Greenwood (one of the most beautiful books I have ever read) 
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