Quotes by Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

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The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall ou — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, instituti — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not. — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentif — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each oth — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were to r — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief. — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms. — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for rev — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
It is a hot summer day in Tennessee in the midst of the sixth decade of this century. The girl has climbed the fence to — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War